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Monte-Cristo's Daughter

The Monte-Cristo Sequel, Book 2

by Edmund Flagg 1815–1890

The book, and the century it came out of.

A sequel written by another hand entirely: Monte Cristo’s daughter grown, the old scores of the Count’s revenge still bleeding, and Paris and Rome still full of people who remember. Flagg was an American consul in Venice and a working journalist, and this is the strangest kind of literary artefact — the Victorian appetite for more of a story, satisfied by the wrong author. Illustrated with 60 full-page plates — paintings by d’Unker, Biard and Robert among them.

The Count of Monte-Cristo was in Rome. He had hired one of the numerous private palaces, the Palazzo Costi, situated on a broad thoroughfare near the point where the Ponte St. Angelo connects Rome proper with that transtiberine suburb known as the Leonine City or Trastavere.
The first sentence of Monte-Cristo's Daughter
A note on this edition

Monte-Cristo's Daughter, by Edmund Flagg, complete and unabridged. Spelling and punctuation follow present-day American usage; the sentences, the paragraphs and the voice are the author’s, word for word.

It was written in another era and may carry attitudes a reader today will find dated. They are kept for the sake of the work and do not reflect the views of this house.

The edition
Format
Ebook
Extent
about 240 pages
Reading time
about 5 hours
Illustrations
Full-page plates, credited
Text
Complete, unabridged
Language
en
This edition
2026
ISBN
9785501003408
The plates

60 paintings are bound into this edition

Six of them are shown here, taken from the volume itself. Each is reproduced full page and named with its painter and year.

Four o’clook, at the Salon, François-Auguste Biard
Four o’clook, at the Salon François-Auguste Biard 1847
Coast scene, possibly Capri, Thomas Fearnley
Coast scene, possibly Capri Thomas Fearnley 1833
Rocky Outcrop by a Stream in the Roman Campagna, Johann Jakob Frey the Elder
Rocky Outcrop by a Stream in the Roman Campagna Johann Jakob Frey the Elder 1837
Venice: the Piazza San Marco, Richard Parkes Bonington
Venice: the Piazza San Marco Richard Parkes Bonington 1828
Vue du fort de Mers El-Kébir, Pierre-Émile Berthélemy
Vue du fort de Mers El-Kébir Pierre-Émile Berthélemy 1847
Vue du Cirque de Gavarnie, Claude-Sébastien Hugard de La Tour
Vue du Cirque de Gavarnie Claude-Sébastien Hugard de La Tour 1847
The setting

A page from this edition

Not a mock-up: this page is taken from the finished volume. The ornament above the chapter belongs to its shelf and to no other, the opening letter is set as a drop capital, and the plate below carries the name of the painter and the year.

A page of Monte-Cristo's Daughter as set for this edition
The opening of a chapter
A page of Monte-Cristo's Daughter as set for this edition
A page where a plate falls

Both photographed from the finished volume.

Colophon

Monte-Cristo's Daughter, issued in this edition by Aeneas Press in 2026 on the Adventure & the Sea shelf. Newly set, with the ornament of its series above each chapter and a drop capital on the opening page. Illustrated with full-page plates, each named with its painter.

Published as an ebook and not issued in print by this house; it carries one ISBN, 9785501003408, and is supplied worldwide. This edition — its setting, its ornament, its cover art, and the selection and attribution of its plates — © 2026 Aeneas Press.

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Questions readers ask

Is this the whole of Monte-Cristo's Daughter?
Yes — complete and unabridged. Nothing is cut, condensed or paraphrased. This is the book, not a summary of it.
What exactly did you change?
The spelling and the punctuation follow present-day American usage. Edmund Flagg's sentences are untouched — same words, same order, same rhythm.
Are the pictures really in the book?
Yes. The edition carries full-page plates bound into the text, each one named with its painter and the year it was made. Six of them are shown on this page.
How long is it?
About 240 pages, which is roughly about 5 hours of reading.
What do I actually get?
An illustrated ebook with its own ISBN, sold worldwide. One file, yours to keep, readable on any device.
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