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| The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 2079
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 928
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 2.1
ISBN: 1853267333
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781853267338
ASIN: 1853267333
Publication Date: November 20, 1997
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Captivating from beginig to end October 24, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I first came to this book by accident but turned out to be one of the best books I've ever read. I was captivated by the story, the characters and the style from the very begining and found it hard to stop reading. The plot, especially the scheming was incedibly well set out and narated. Every character is unique and described in such a manner that not only you can picture them phisically but completely understand their inner most thoughts. All of this is achieved by the author without becoming boring or too tiresome. One of the best novels I've come across.
A magnificent study of human character December 7, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In this book I found the great novelist and met his descriptive ability at it's highest peak. Alexandre Dumas comes from France's great potential of producing writers that can move still with their work readers all over the world with the least effort. The characters give the notion that they actually live in the world stage the novelist creates around them. The human knowledge on betrayal is being promoted to the simple truth that one can't be sure of his friend's and the people that surround them. Dumas shows that man is a being that hides in many ways his principles and beliefs so that his intentions may not be visible. The novel is long and proves to be product of deep thought as much as it is entertaining. It consists of over a hundred chapters that drive the emotion of the reader gradually to the fatal end of men that double-crossed Edward Dantes or Count of the small island of Monte Cristo.They also drive the reader through capital cities of the time and show the ways that the haughty aristocracy poses it's attitude to satisfy their tastes. People that are not really aristocrats and upstarts that want to be all the more that they can be to pose to the crowd. The fatality of their acts that even the hero has for me is the goal of the novel and is the reason why it is so daring. Suspence, murder, thieves and tropical places altogether share their part in a really impressing novel.
Well worth the wait! September 21, 2000
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
When I was ten years old, I recall a teacher at my junior school telling a class of boys just on their way to play football about a book that he'd just read. He called "The Count of Monte Cristo" a fantastic adventure story that had everything in it. I recall making a mental note to read the book as soon as I had a chance. Well, I hit 40 this year and I finally kept my pledge. After 30 years, I can honestly say that it was worth the wait. The opening 300 pages was as good as anything I have read, and the final 300 ties everything together wonderfully well. Perhaps there is a middle section where the pace slows down just a little too much, but the overall impression is one of perfect balance. It's quite likely that my old teacher is no longer with us, but as with Edmond Dantes, his legacy lives on in at least one thankfull mind.
great August 14, 2000
This is a marvelous book, but MAKE SURE YOU READ THE UNABRIDGED VERSION, it is vastly better - not that it has much more storyline but the details and the character development are waaay better. Even the shortened, abridged version is worth reading if you want to though.
Why can't I put ten stars down? July 26, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you have even gone onto this page, you will see that you have to buy this book. It is quite simply the most unputdownable book that you will ever read. It may be 1000 pages long, but you will wish there were another thousand to go when you reach the end.
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