The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet
1844 Classic Literature
Genre
Adventure
Adventure fiction of the nineteenth century was written for serial publication, so the chapters are short and almost every one ends on a turn. Stevenson, Dumas, London and Verne are the names most readers know; all of them are easier to read than their reputations suggest.
Where to start: Treasure Island and The Call of the Wild are short. The Count of Monte Cristo is enormous but moves quickly.
13 books, in order of first publication
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Herman Melville
1851 Classic Literature
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne
1870 Classic Literature
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
1872 Classic Literature
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
1876 Classic Literature
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
1883 Classic Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1884 Classic Literature
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
1898 Classic Literature
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
1899 Classic Literature
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
1900 Adventure
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
1903 Classic Literature
Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)
J. M. Barrie
1911 Classic Literature
The Odyssey
Homer
Classic Literature
Easiest entry points
- Around the World in Eighty Days · Jules Verne
- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) · J. M. Barrie
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · Mark Twain
- The Call of the Wild · Jack London
- The War of the Worlds · H. G. Wells