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Grandes Clásicos Literatura Random House nos brinda esta magnífica edición de una novela de enorme poder de sugestión, a través de la figura del hombre solitario que, tras sobrevivir a una vil traición, regresa para hacer justicia.
El conde de Montecristo es uno de los clásicos más populares de todos los tiempos. Desde su publicación, en 1844, no ha dejado de seducir al gran público con la inolvidable historia de su protagonista.
Edmond Dantés es un joven marinero, honrado y cándido, que lleva una existencia tranquila. Quiere casarse con la hermosa Mercedes, pero su vida se verá arruinada cuando su mejor amigo, Ferdinand, deseoso de conquistar a su prometida, le traicione vilmente. Condenado a cumplir una condena que no merece en la siniestra prisión del castillo de If, Edmond vivirá una larga pesadilla de trece años. Obsesionado por su inesperado destino, dejará de lado sus convicciones en torno al bien y al mal, y se dedicará a tramar la venganza perfecta.
Historia transida de densidad moral y cívica, El conde de Montecristo es, hoy como ayer, una novela amena, iluminadora y fascinante en sus múltiples dimensiones.
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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. 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. 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 serialized in the 1840s.
Robin Buss's lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas's original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.
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Why didn't I read this book earlier?!!This work is unbelievably rich, complex, and fascinating. Not a single moment of boredom, not a single uninteresting line, not a single dull page. As for the characters, what can I say! A large set of individuals as different and distinct from one another as there are people under the sun. We find the noble and we find the base, the forgiving and the revengeful, the brave and the cowardly, the loving and the hateful... Edmond Dantes or the Count of Monet Cristo! Is he a noble soul? A man with a God complex? or both at the same time? Having lost his youth, his woman, his father, and his freedom in a treacherous plot spun against him out of jealousy and greed, this man had gone through an extraordinary transformation. The cheerful and loving youth at the beginning of the tale was accordingly replaced by the merciless angel of vengeance who came back to the setting of his early misfortunes, and integrated the circle of those who deserved his wrath with the purpose of revenging himself in a cold, sober, and yet terrifying manner. Somewhere down the road, however, the innocent Dantes had fallen victim to a God complex which made him wreak havoc back and forth on the name of providence. Although the majority of his acts and decisions brought but the merited punishment on those who had asked for it, there are still some flaws in his design which proved, even to him, that judgement is the work of God alone, and if Man took such a task upon himself it would simply be vengeance. But the Count is not the only interesting character though the most intriguing. The Vicompte Albert de Morcerf, for instance, is an excellent specimen of the constantly developing character. This young man goes from the life of an idle dandy squandering money back and forth to that of a noble youth who sacrificed the fortune of his father, and set about his new life penniless in the world once he had ascertained the dishonorable manner in which it was amassed. It is not humanely possible to put all the interesting features of the book in a single review without making it extraordinarily long and tedious, and so I will let you experience the marvels of this work instead. Discover love with Maximilian and Valentine, infidelity with Baron and Baroness Danglars, duplicity with Villefort, morbid maternal love with Heloise de Villefort, unconventionality with Eugenie Danglars...