![]() It's a clever way to get revenge: help everyone's just deserts to work themselves out, as fate is supposed to do.īut it didn't work for me. I see what Dumas's idea was: the Count takes it upon himself to embody tragic fate or karma, instigating convoluted plots to reveal the skeletons in his enemies' closets and detonate the landmines laid years before and waiting to explode their comfortable lives. He is no longer so much a human being as a demigod, able to discover every secret, spend any amount, and manipulate any person to his own hidden ends. We find him, years later, transformed into the Count, a sort of avenging angel: part Batman, part Robin Hood, part cosmopolitan billionaire. The character of Edmond, his story, his personality go out the window. ![]() ![]() It turns out the novel changes suddenly and violently. With hundreds of pages still to go, I was wondering though why it would take so many to tell the tale of his revenge. ![]() The first quarter had me hooked on Edmond's story of malicious prosecution, imprisonment, escape, and discovery of a treasure. ![]()
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