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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

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Dec 27, 2022 Beth (bibliobeth) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The Count of Monte Cristo was one of the last books I finished in 2022 and I was lucky to read it alongside some fabulous bookstagrammers, invoking discussions that just added to a perfect reading experience. ⁣
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Looking at the size of this novel, I’m not surprised that some readers put it off, I was certainly in that camp myself. Honestly though, it reads like a dream and once I was 50 or so pages in, I completely forgot about the length of the story, I was just completely captivated by the adven ...more

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Sep 27, 2012 Jeff Curtis rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: shelve-c-5

This deluxe edition of The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexandre Dumas deserves the honor of such successes today as, War and Peace, Les Miserable, and Madame Bovary. Consisting of four volumes and 1,193 pages and 35 different characters.

Dumas tells us the story about trust, betrayal, honesty, and deceit, imprisonment and escape. This whole masterpiece becomes about revenge.

But by the end of this novel we learn its about a whole lot more. And all we have to do is wait and hope.

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