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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0-375-76030-X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Instant Favorite Upon Reading
Comment: This book is probably the fastest book I've ever read through. I checked out an old copy with near 1500 pages and read it in six days. I could not leave this book alone. I read straight through some less interesting classes in high school. This book deals with vengeance on so high a level, I had never before imagined anything like it. Dumas has great skill in description, and i enjoyed how he intertwined history into this classic fictional piece of literature. I recommend this book to all adventure seekers. I give this excellent novel five out of five stars! Try it, you'll love it.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Classic with faults
Comment: I just finished this book and I agree with all the positive comments previously posted. Just wanted to add a few thoughts.
This book was originally serialized in a French magazine back in the 1840s. As a consequence, there are repeated cliffhangers at the end of every chapter. Now I don't mind cliffhangers (hey, they move the plot along) but after 116 of these it got a little old. In addition, some of the character transformations seem implausible and Dumas gets some of his facts mixed up from the early part of the novel (I probably would as well).
I could pick bones about some part. What was the purpose of the whole Cucumetto bandit story? Maybe Dumas was saving him for later but he never does. They plot also needs a miraculous set of confluences to happen in say, well, every part of novel. Entertaining, yup, but at times I just said, "Oh come on now!" The character of Monte Cristo is a very interesting one. If he could ever hook up with Hannibel Lector, another guy who has the highest level of expertise in nearly every field and endeavor, the rest of us would be in big trouble.
Buy this book and enjoy it. It's really quite fun and you'll learn a lot about French history and culture.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Lost Era Brilliantly Resurrected
Comment: A piece of something lost. An elegance and order that is no longer available to this generation. That is what the Count of Monte Cristo takes us back to. As you follow Edmond Dantés, a young and enterprising French fisherman, through a remarkable journey of long and torturous suffering and carefully wrought revenge you will soon gain a new definition of romance and adventure.
The book starts it's story in early 19th century France in a small fishing village called Marseilles, where we first meet youthful Edmond Dantés who is engaged to the most beautiful woman of his village and is soon to be the captain of his own vessel. Though ignorant and naïve, he is beloved by all who know him and has amassed a great deal of friends, however, one with such good fortune also amasses many enemies. Through a series of events plotted by Fernand, who desperately covets Edmond's betrothed, Mercedes, and Danglars, a fellow sailor jealous of Edmond's new promotion to captain, Dantés finds himself in prison for a crime he did not commit. Still ignorant of the scheme that put him in prison, or the plotters who ruined his life, Edmond waits in prison. This changes, however, when he meets his cellmate, Faria, an ancient abbé who is considered mad. This "mad" abbé will reveal an amazing secret to Edmond that will change the course of his fate forever, and hope is finally in his view. Dantés emerges out of prison changed and worn cynical by a long and terrible imprisonment of 16 years. Though he assumes many identities, he gradually adopts the identity as the Count of Monte Cristo, an immensely wealthy and indifferent nobleman as he returns to Marseilles to wreck his much-thought over revenge individually on his plotters. His last words as the former Edmond Dantés after he rewards one of his loyal friends are:
"And now," said the unknown (Edmond) "farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been Heaven's substitute to recompense the good -now the God of Vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!" At these words he gave a signal, and, as if only awaiting this signal, the yacht instantly put out to sea.
-The Count of Monte Cristo
However, Edmond cannot remain under the cover of the illustrious Count of Monte Cristo forever, and he will soon find that a heart even so indifferent and cold as his own cannot remain lifeless for long. This is an amazing novel of suspense, romance and betrayal. Alexandre Dumas weaves many stories into one enthrallingly suspenseful and complex story of love, hate, betrayal and loyalty. This book has no equal and I would recommend it to anyone who appreciates classic and elegant, while exciting and adventurous, literature.
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Title: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas ISBN: 0140367470 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo (Cliffs Notes) by James L. Roberts ISBN: 0822003260 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas, David Coward ISBN: 0192838423 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland ISBN: 014029628X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss ISBN: 0140449264 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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