The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas (also rec’d by Rose McGowan )
Buy on AmazonI grew up under the cultural bias that ‘Dumas was for middlebrows,’ not literary, hence one should quickly read The Three Musketeers when still in puberty, followed by Dickens, then move on to ‘real’ and ‘literary’ novelists like Flaubert, Zola, or, perhaps Balzac, as a preparation for, some day, the Russians… So it was the most pleasant surprise that, during the lockdown of COVID-19, I accidentally got into this. Owing to the early developments around the pandemic, I could not easily concent...
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"I grew up under the cultural bias that ‘Dumas was for middlebrows,’ not literary, hence one should quickly read The Three Musketeers when still in puberty, followed by Dickens, then move on to ‘real’ and ‘literary’ novelists like Flaubert, Zola, or, perhaps Balzac, as a preparation for, some day, the Russians… So it was the most pleasant surprise that, during the lockdown of COVID-19, I accidentally got into this. Owing to the early developments around the pandemic, I could not easily concent..."
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