![]() I found the ebook advertised with a price of practically nothing and a page count of 486. Pretty certain I already knew that, at least deep down where I need not produce proof, I went straight to Amazon. “Book Frenchman convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, escapes from prison and claims vengeance.”Īnd good old Google came back with: “The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.” I had a vague recollection of the plot, so I headed on over to Google. I remembered a film I’d watched years ago and felt certain it was based on something literarily magnificent but I couldn’t remember the title, the author or anyone who’d appeared in the adaptation I barely recalled. ![]() Hence this quest.Īll of this is really just to introduce myself. So as much as I might recognise a quote and even know where it’s from, that doesn’t necessarily mean I’ve read the book. All of which have, in their way, exposed my brain to all manner of literary giants with sneaky jokes and asides. Thanks to a childhood in the nineteen-eighties, I am an aficionado of film, television and pop culture. ![]() This was, as ever, in the hopes that I would recognise obscure quotes and oblique references in the course of the sorts of run-of-the-mill, intellectual conversations I plan to have as I approach my middle years. ![]() “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”Ĭhapter 117, The Fifth of October, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasĪs you may remember, I made a decision a little while ago to fill in the gaps in my knowledge of classical literature by actually reading some. ![]()
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