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Count of monte cristo audiobook abridged4/16/2024 ![]() ![]() if you can, please read the full version. This is an highly intelligent book so yeah. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. I can't imagine that any abridged version could actually bring the following across as perfectly as the original version:Īll of the important characters, their part of the story, everything surrounding Dantès revenge. Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Translator) 4.30. I don't have this opinion since the characters are very memoriable. Some people say that when you read the Count of Monte Christo you'd need to keep track of the names. Be it the writing style of the author, or things in the plot that just make you smile. The point I'd like to make is: you'll lose to much in an abridged version. Of course not every abridged version is like that. When I was a kid we had one extremely short abridged version that even changed the plot so much that the main character fled differently from his prison. I don't know if that's even included in the abridged versions since there are so many. ![]() The author is a genious with words and the time this was written was one in which even men said of other men that they loved them - in a friendly platonic way (without adding that but you just know that). If not, look out for a great translation. I guess if you're able to read the original French version you'll be delighted. Oh hey, I only just read the unabridged version from early December to early January (roughly 1470 pages of story takes me a bit long) and I can tell you probably only that: Unabridged all the way! ![]()
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