How many pages in The Count of Monte Cristo?

Answer 1

100 M ? U gotta be kidding..

For an easier calculation, i'm gonna consider some scenes of the movie.

In the first view, we learn that there is over 9 boat filled of chests, from Jacabo. At this scene we also see over 20 chest in a boat. That makes 180/200 chest of gold and gems.

Next scene, Jacabo make a afford to a rich lord to buy his castle, with a wagon of jewelry. To convince the lord, Jacabo must have made a sufficient offer. I mean, he paid more than normal value of castle.

Today most expesive house prices begins from 5 millions goes utill 1 billion dollar. That castle in the movie seemed very very expensive. Basicly i will consider it's price as 100 Million dollars.

Calculation: 100 M * 20 * 9 = 18 Billion dollars.

This is minimum worth of my guess. It could be 100B or 1T too.

Answer 2

Well, he states that part of the treasure is 1000 ingots of pure gold weighing 1 to 2 pounds each. With gold being $1000 an ounce as of March 2008 that would be anywhere from 16 million to 32 million dollars worth of just gold ingots. Of course, that does not include the diamonds or the gold coins. But if you assume the gold coins and diamonds were each worth as much as the ingots that is a minimum of 48 to 96 million or more. Not a paultry sum by any stretch of the imagination but also not considered "super rich" by today's standards (Bill Gates, Warren Buffett).

My guess is that the Count's fortune was about 100 Million dollars in today's money.

New Answer: I believe the above is underestimated by quite a bit. I am reading the Count of Monte Cristo currently, and started wondering exactly how much money the count had. After quite a bit of Surfing and math, I came up with a much larger answer.

I calculated everything out in francs where possible (because that is the main currency they used in the book) and then converted that to US dollars, and back to francs when necessary (all done with the values of the money in the 1800s). With the gold ingots I converted first to dollars, then to francs.

The gold ingots are 2-3 pounds a piece (not the 1-2 originally mentioned), and I went with 3 for the sake of these calculations.

An ounce of gold in the mid to early 1800s was worth around $20. And in the 1800s 5 francs = $1 USD. So the gold ended up being 4.8 million francs.

The gold ecus, as stated in the book, were worth about 24 francs per piece. He counted out 25,000 of them, but said that was only half of them. So 50,000 ecus @ 24 francs a piece = 1.25 million francs.

The jewels...this is tricky. The only way I could think to do this was to go off of the value of the one jewel he gave someone early in the story- it was worth 50,000 + francs. He said he measured 10 handfuls of jewels. I assumed his hands measured an approximate 4" cube, and assumed a jewel was about 1/4" cubed. This would bring the jewel total to 2,560 at 50,000 francs a piece. Total for jewels: 128,000,000 francs. Even if I overestimated the jewels, it was still a crrrapload of money. Jewels would definitely be where the bulk of the money was at. Think of how much money some of those teeny diamonds are worth today!

Final totals

Total in francs (for purpose of reading the book- to get a grasp on how much money he was working with) :134,050,000

This makes sense considering that the count wanted to spend at least 6 million francs in a single summer season and thought nothing of it. He is shown to be EXTREMELY frivolous with millions of dollars. You get the impression that he is a very very smart man, and I am certain that he wouldn't be spending this way unless he had an insanely huge amount. This is the best guesstimate I could come up with, and if you estimate the weight of the gold at 2 pounds instead of 3 it would be somewhat less.

Total in US dollars TODAY: $670,000,000

(Because $1 in 1850 was worth approximately $25 today)

So, he would very much have been considered ridiculously wealthy today! I hope that helps someone out, it was driving me CRAZY trying to guess how much money he had in the book.

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I've been thinking about doing my own analysis, but it's not easy. I do want to mention that the emerald from which he constructed his case of pills was identical to the emerald with which he purchased Haydee, which was worth 800,000 francs, according to the letter of sale admitted as evidence against the Comte de Morcerf. I'm sure the value of his gems varied greatly (they also mention earlier in the book that his horses were adorned with diamonds worth 5k francs a piece, I think), but it is possible that his wealth was even greater than the estimate derived by the original poster of this answer.

This is actually very simple as he gives his net worth in/around chapter 91 while writing his will. He gives two numbers, 20 million in cash/jewels and 60 million in various properties, furnishings, artwork, etc. The count's total net worth is then approximately 80 million in 1850 dollars, or 2.04 billion in 2009 dollars. Certainly one of the richest men in the world at that time.

The Count's total net worth was 80,000,000 francs. A French franc in 1838 was 290.32 mg of gold which is approximately .01025 ounces of gold. Gold in 1838 was $20.67 an ounce on the New York exchange. In 2009 dollars that's $411.24. So a French franc in 1838 was worth about $4.22 in today's dollars. Times that by 80 million gives us $337,600,000. Not a bad hunk of change. Remember too that back then a dollar went a long, long way. Monte Cristo bought a slightly used Greek Princess for less than 20k.

Answer 3

1500 pages. suck it.

wrong it is 441

wrong you poor fool... this book is so long it is broke up in 3 books. if you don't have the sense to notice the word "abridged" on the cover of your book, you shouldn't be posting answers to simple questions.

Answer 4

In determining the value of the treasure of Sparta from the 2002 movie "The Count of Monte Cristo". I viewed the movie a number of times and came to the following conclusions. I'm not going to try and calculate the intrinsic value of the items, just a basic estimate of their current value on todays market.

ESTIMATED:

The treasure chests were 4ft long 2 ft wide and 2 ft deep. The boat held 12 and as Jacapo said, ' Theres at least 8 more boat loads Zatarra" for a total of 96 treasure chests, lets round to 100 for the 'at least'.

I went with them all being filed with a mix of Spanish doubloons 65%, Diamonds 5%, Rubies7% Emeralds 7%, loose gold and jeweled items ( Plates, goblets, crosses, crowns, tiaras, etc. of which I will estimate weight and carat) 5% gold / 2% gems and empty space 9% = 100%

Current market pricing - 6/1/2012

Gold $1560 per troy ounce

These are rough estimates for gems (and taken by judging size in the back of the wagon from the movie scene when Jacopo was a cheeky bastard and bought the mansion).

Emeralds - (2.77 specific gravity) with emerald cut roughly 4 carats - $1500 per carat

Rubies - ( 4.0 sg) with emerald cut roughly 5 carats - $2200 per carat

Diamonds (3.51 sg)-with Square cushion cut roughly 4 carats - $7500 per carat medium quality (a low estimate, but not bottom)

1 cc of gold weighs 19.3 grams

1 oz of gold is 28 grams

1 cc = 10mm cubed

Gems = 10 mm x 10 mm x 5 mm

2 gems per cubic cm

ONE CHEST

Size 4x2x2 = 16 cubic feet

1 cubic ft = 28,317 cubic cm x 16 = 453072 cc

Gold Coins 65% = 294497 cc x 19.3g / 28g = $316,668,417

Empty space 9% = 40776 cc

Loose items 7% = 31715 cc

Gold 5% = 30129 cc x 19.3g / 28g = $32, 397,283

Gems 2 % = 1586 cc

Emeralds 40% = 634 cc x 2 gems x 4 carats = $7,608,000

Rubies 40% = 634 cc x 2 gems x 5 carats = $13,948,000

Diamonds 20% = 317 cc x 2 gems x 4 carats = $19,020,000

Rubies 7% = 31715 cc x 2 gems x 4 carats = $380,580,000

Emeralds 7% = 31715 cc x 2 gems x 5 carats = $697,730,000

Diamonds 5% = 22654 cc x 2 gems x 4 carats = $1,359,240,000

Total per Chest = $2,827,191,700 x 100 = $282,719,170,000 ( yes that's 283 BILLION dollars, almost 5 times richer than Bill gates)

BTW, research and calc only took 4 hours. If you find errors fix them your self, don't complain.

The main issue is this though, each chest, using my estimates weighed 15,169 pounds! I don't think Jacopo was man handling those by himself unless he's the hulks great great great grandfather.

That was fun Cya

Answer 5

In the unabridged version, there are approximately 444,702 words, but in the abridged version there are about 188,129.

Answer 6

The Count of Monte Cristo grossed $54,228,104 in the domestic market.

Answer 7

The Count of Monte Cristo grossed $75,389,090 worldwide.

Answer 8

The Count of Monte Cristo has around 1200 pages in most editions.