![]() It is one of the authors most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. This works wells, for the most part, but sometimes dialogue becomes a monologue, and that can become tedious to read. The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel. This keeps the scene active and in front of the reader instead of a narrative summary. Instead of using a literary device like flashbacks, Dumas insists on using dialogue to explain the backstory. His history as a playwright is also evident in his use of dialogue. To that end, Dumas frequently collaborated with others to create realistic characters throughout the social strata of 19th century France. He instructs Bertuccio to purchase Danglars’s two most beautiful horses for twice their asking price, knowing that these horses actually belong to Madame Danglars. In The Count of Monte Cristo, there are innkeepers, government officials, political leaders, sailors, smugglers, priests, and nobles. Monte Cristo now engages in a clever, complex ruse to win the good graces of the Danglars and Villefort families. Even within France, he does a great job of evoking a sense of place-Paris is different from Marseilles in the south. He vividly paints the differences between Italy and France. His travel writing is clearly evident in The Count of Monte Cristo's frequent country hopping. I would suggest it was suitable for fifteen years and older, and that younger readers might not fully engage with it and young children would find it. ![]() Some of his most iconic characters-Dantes and D'Artagnan, are outsiders.Īs for his deliberate practice, Dumas was an accomplished playwright and travel writer before he turned to fiction. His status as an outsider might have influenced his writing. His father was a famous Haitian-born French general. Yes, Alexandre Dumas- creator of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask-was of Afro-Caribbean descent. Some people may be surprised to see Alexandre Dumas on my list of books highlighting writers of color. ![]() How'd He Do That? Author Highlight: Alexandre Dumas He is also a hypocrite, nearly killing his illegitimate son to save face. He is duty-bound to uphold justice, but he is entirely self-serving, sending Dantes to prison to avoid any connection with a political coup. The Count saved the Morrel family from financial ruin months after coming into his fortune, and once the Count realizes that young Morrel wishes to marry Valentine, he does all he can to save her from her stepmother’s predations and to spirit her away so that she and Morrel can live together. The Count of Monte Cristo is a story about a sailor, Edmond Dantes, who was betrayed during the prime of his life and career by the jealousy of his friends. One of the primary villains of the novel is the public prosecutor named Villefort (see what Dumas did there, the vill-ain is called Ville-fort). This irony adds humor to the dark narrative and a feeling of second-hand excitement as Edmond changes his various personas to suit his plans. He interacts with friends and foes in these disguises, with only his former fiancé ever recognizing him. As of July 2012, Project Gutenberg claimed over 40,000 items in its collection.During the events of the novels, Edmond Dantes disguises himself as several people: a priest, an Englishman, and a sailor/smuggler. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-lasting, open formats that can be used on almost any computer. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". Project Gutenberg is a project to collect and archive public domain texts and is the source of this book. Eventually, there will be generated ebooks in the downloads area.Įvery repository in GITenberg contains a number of standard files, including a license text, a metadata file, and this readme file. Some books also contain generated ebooks, html versions, and images/figures from the text as image files. The main source file for this book will be a file with the name 1184 with a file extension (ex.txt. ![]() For more information and how to get involved see the CONTRIBUTING section of the GITenberg website. Believing himself to be an 'Angel of Providence', Dants pursues his vengeance. For advanced users, you can make a Pull Request on Github. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, The Count of Monte Cristo is also a tale of obsession and revenge. Please copy-and-paste the entire sentence that contains the error, and what the text should read. If you find an error in a book in GITenberg, you can report it by clicking the Issues tab in this book’s repository. This book is in the Public Domain, see the LICENSE file for details. This is a git repository of the source files for the book The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870.
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