Rowling could ever conjure up.Įdmond Dantes, a young sailor on the cusp of being named captain of a cargo ship and preparing to marry his sweetheart, becomes the victim of a plot by envious rivals. It is no exaggeration to say “Monte Cristo” still ranks as one of the most exciting stories imaginable, one every bit as good as anything Steven Spielberg or J.K. To this reader, who has read other editions of the book several times, the Everyman’s version retains the heft and majesty of “Monte Cristo” in all of its breathtaking glory.ĭumas published the book in 1846. This newly edited version of “Monte Cristo” offers some streamlining, but it hasn’t been noticeably trimmed.Īfter all, any novel running close to 1,200 pages cannot be deemed overedited. Beyond that pecuniary circumstance, the author serialized his works, forcing endless repetition of scenes and dialogue in an attempt to ensure continuity. Dumas suffers from logorrhea, induced by the simple formula that the more he wrote, the more money he made. In the name of the throes, Eco outlines all of the novel’s excesses and weaknesses but still pronounces it irresistible. The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas’s doorstop of derring-do, demonstrates its durability yet again, this time in a newly edited version led by a perceptive essay by Italian master of letters Umberto Eco.
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