• unwinagainstable@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The Count of Monte Cristo. I did like it, but I expect the abridged version would have been better for me. There were parts that were a struggle to get through. It just seems like the unabridged version is more recommended, so I felt compelled to get through it

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      1 year ago

      There’s a reason behind it. When it was first published, it was serialised, so Dumas had an incentive to drag it along, also it romanticizes travels around Europe because it was fancy at the time.

      The plot behind it is still one of the most compelling I have ever read and a revenge story that few modern works of art can match.