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Frame Story
Key Examples in The Count of Monte Cristo
Genre
Explanation and Analysis:
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel first and foremost. It is an account of the adventures—the many, many adventures—of the titular Count over the course of almost three decades. In addition to the adventures of the Count, the novel also explores the past adventures of a variety of its other characters, including the bandit Luigi Vampa and the Count's steward Bertuccio, through the use of frame stories. As an adventure novel, it has all the vast array of action sequences, suspense, and requited and unrequited love that the reader might expect to find.
