The Count of Monte Cristo (Fiction, 1844, 1374 pages) This title is not on Your Bookshelf. Though I really enjoyed this version and recommend it, I will probably try to find the unabridged one at some point. It goes quickly, but at over 1000 pages it would be considered quite long by most readers! Actually, yeah. That's enough for me. I just finished reading the Count and did not realize it was the abridged version, though I initially felt a bit ripped off, the version I read by Bantam which was just over 500 pages does include all of the story components that are mentioned in some comments as missing. 3. How good an abridged version is, of course, depends on who did the abridging, and how much they took out. 4.6976744186047 (43 Reviews) Published: 1845.
As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. The Count was one of the best reads ever.It is one of my all time favorite books! Some comments say it's abridged others say not. It's like the abridgers did the opposite of what a abridged version should do, and took out interesting parts instead of boring parts. Second favorite of all time, behind The Lord of the Rings. Conspiracy. Didn't realize the library book I selected was abridged. I'd definitely recommend the unabridged, but the assertion that it's "not that long" is off. This block will remain in place until legal guidance changes. It's truly one of the greatest novels ever written, right up there with "War and Peace" and company. However, I do think that abridged books are good because they introduce the book. The Count of Monte Cristo begins as a tale of envy and jealousy realized by calumny, treachery, prejudice, injustice, and damnation heaped upon a poor and guileless young sailor. I have read the unabridged version and two abridged versions. The page count on the original version may seem daunting but trust me. 5. I became a huge fan of Alexandre Dumas just after reading the book, though it was an abridged version. The book still flows, but there are very interesting pieces of the story that, in my opinion, need to be told. The abridged versions leave out entire story plots. The abridged is good enough for high school, because I don't think many kids would be interested in reading a huge 1000 page book. Dumas was paid based on the length of his work. If you have a longer one than I do, I guess the unabridged version wouldn't be too bad. I guess I am not the purist that many commentators are here.
I found that even though the unabridged version is quite long, it is very fast moving so why read the abridged version? The abridged version bowdlerizes the novel to take out the portions that certain people didn't approve of such as plot lines about illegitimacy and cross-dressing. I get my books from the Library so I was a bit surprised to find it was the abridged version. We apologize for this inconvenience. Always, always, always do unabridged. Re-read this after many years, and kept thinking that something was missing. The Count of Monte Cristo. Abridgements of anything are completely unnecessary. Or, clearing the history of your visits to the site. Fantastic for him - not so much for us! I've been wanting to read the book again, but all the bookstores I explore in don't have the complete unabridged book. There is a lot of repetition and unnecessary wordiness in the original. I found it flowed well. Some people say that when you read the Count of Monte Christo you'd need to keep track of the names. I would not want to miss a single word! I usually go for unabridged versions. It took me a long time to read this book but I'll admit I don't really like long books and I've got a pretty short attention span. Amen to reading unabridged. I feel this because I read the abridged version of this book in 5th grade, and LOVED it. Of course not every abridged version is like that. As a high school sophomore, we read both Les Miserables and Count of Monte Cristo abridged versions. The abridged version looked much shorter and I'd worry about what they cut out. (Did we really need to know all about Cucumetto and Luigi Vampa, for instance?) I just checked my local library website and it's not listed with either book or recordings. I read the abridged version. At first I was excited and wanted to buy it, since it had been on my to-read list for quite a while now, but then I noticed that it was abridged. In my personal opinion, it is untruthful say you have read The Count of Monte Christo (or any book) if you haven't read the whole thing. The unabridged is thick, but absolutely worth it. Occasionally, the website mis-applies a block from a previous visitor. Alexandre Dumas‚ Pere's The Count of Monte Cristo consists of 117 parts for ease of reading. So I was at the book store earlier today since I was in the area and I saw Count of monte cristo on the shelves. What irritates me is how hard it is to find out if the book or recording is abridged or not. By. Is there a huge difference between the two or will I get just as much out of the abridged that I would the unabridged?