![]() ![]() Revenge shows up and not just from the Count. – Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (p. No one likes a free box as much as a millionaire. The irony that shows up every now and then could be summed up in this one perfect line: There’s nothing quite as funny as an author making fun of themselves. – Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (pg. I’m pretty sure that this is the funniest line in the whole novel:ĭo you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a novelist? 34).’ I also thought it was hilarious when Albert is trying to hook up in Italy and finds that Italian women are faithful in their infidelity and so not at all interested in him. The Count of Monte Cristo is about more than just revenge, especially in the unabridged edition that I read. As long as this story is, I really can’t see how you would abridge it without losing something.Ī few of my favorite funny moments were when this love sick guy talks about dying for love and the drunk guy responds, ‘There’s love, or I don’t know it (pg. I was not expecting this classic novel about revenge to also be ironic, sarcastic, funny, witty, and based on a true story. ![]() Dumas' epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialised in the 1840s. 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 use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. ![]()
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