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The Count of Monte Cristo (Oxford World's Classics) - Community Reviews back

by Alexandre Dumas
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Elentarri's Book Blog
Elentarri's Book Blog rated it 5 years ago
TITLE: The Count of Monte Cristo AUTHOR: Alexandre Dumas TRANSLATOR: Robin Buss DATE PUBLISHED: originally 1844 (Penguin edition 2012) FORMAT: Hardcover EDITION: Penguin Classics (Clothbound), complete and unabridged ISBN-13: 978...
Aren's Library
Aren's Library rated it 8 years ago
Rather fascinating read.
Malin
Malin rated it 8 years ago
Young sailor Edmond Dantés is well-meaning, kind and really rather naive, wanting nothing more than to make enough money to take care of his elderly father and marry his beloved Mercedes. There are other, less well-meaning people in his life who want what he has and are prepared to frame Dantés for ...
mattries37315
mattries37315 rated it 8 years ago
This classic story of wrongful imprisonment, hidden treasure, and revenge is truly a masterpiece. Alexandre Dumas’ famous novel The Count of Monte Cristo has seen life not only in print but in film and television, but one cannot appreciate the novel unless you read it in its entire unabridged lengt...
Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality!
Reading is my ESCAPE from Reality! rated it 9 years ago
I found this book long and a bit difficult to read. Apparently, I read the abridged version, but I can't imagine what they took out. Anyway, the end made up for the early dragging. The revenge in the end was worth the wait and very clever.
Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents
Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents rated it 9 years ago
No revenge story will ever measure up after reading this. Dude is the Revenge Master, level infinity. He was framed and sent away to prison for life as a young man. After fourteen years in prison, he escapes and plots and amazing comeback. He doesn't rush in and screw it all up. It takes twenty...
A Tale of Two Pages
A Tale of Two Pages rated it 10 years ago
Revenge is something best served cold, and when it has been twenty years in the making, its even better for the one who wants the revenge! Edmond Dantes has such a promising future ahead of him and a wonderful girl waiting for him at home. On the day of his engagement he is torn away from her, and t...
Unimportant Musings
Unimportant Musings rated it 11 years ago
The Count of Monte Cristo, at 1,276 pages, can read like it has either a quarter or quadruple that many. If context doesn't matter, a glance at how long it took me to swallow this Book¹, a statistic this site so helpfully provides, might lead one to the conclusion that I breathed an explosive sigh o...
Stewartry
Stewartry rated it 11 years ago
The spoiler-free short version: The Count of Monte Cristo is an extraordinary, long, complex (as in, takes a large chart to keep relationships straight) work with a very simple story idea: a young man is horribly wronged, emerges from prison with a new life and a vast fortune, and uses that plus his...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: re-visit-2014, re-read, revenge, epic-proportions, betrayal, published-1844, france, seven-seas, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, treasure, napoleonic, spring-2014 Read from January 01, 1986 to April 23, 2014, read count: 2 I promised myself a re-acquaintance with this epic back when I w...
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