Chapter 20-21
Dantes sews himself into Faria's burial sack and is hurled into the sea — symbolic death and rebirth as the future Count.
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From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Dantes's substitution of himself for Faria's corpse and his plunge into the sea is one of literature's most famous escape scenes.
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