The Count of Monte Cristo

Publication date 1981 Topics Adventure stories, Adventure stories Publisher New York : Bantam Books Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 936.7M

Translation of Le comte de Monte-Cristo

Edmund Dantes, unjustly accused and imprisoned for conspiring with Napoleon Bonaparte, eventually escapes from his unbearable captivity, uncovers a treasure and begins his long repressed vengeance against those who betrayed him

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Reviewer: Ze Mastor - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 25, 2021
Subject: Best abridged version of the book. Must read!

To date, this one, the 1956 abridgment of ”The Count of Monte Cristo” by Lowell Bair is the gold standard for shorter versions of the book. If you want the unabridged one, in modern English, go for the Robin Buss translation. If you’re looking for a streamlined version in modern English that retains most of the characters, character interaction, plot, subplots AND witty dialogue, without the overly wordy, talky and meandering chapters, go for this one. There is a good reason why the Lowell Bair version is heavily used in high schools. it’s GOOD. It also includes some of the more scandalous and censored parts of Dumas’ original: brutal public executions, adultery, illegitimate babies, attempted infanticide, people leaving their disgraced spouses, and possible LGBT characters. Things that are absent from children’s editions of the book.

Bair’s shortened and re-translated text flows beautifully, and can be read effortlessly without getting bored or losing track of the plot due to lengthy character discussions in the original. What makes this slightly short of perfection is the culling of some chapters that I think are crucial to understanding the story and characters (Chapter 4- “Conspiracy” and Chapter 77- “Haydee” in the unabridged text). It almost hurts to see those chapters excised here, and to see them present in some children’s editions. Still, Lowell Bair shows that over half of Dumas’ text can be successfully removed and yet still preserve the flavor of the original book. Recommended for teen and adult readers.

Note: All abridged editions of ”The Count of Monte Cristo” are not the same. There is a public domain abridgment, based on an anonymous 19th century translation that runs about 600 pages. This has been published by many book publishers, and this version does not update the stilted language, is no more understandable to modern audiences, and worst of all, completely removes Danglars’ fate at the hands of Luigi Vampa’s gang. Hacking out chapters like this to make the book shorter does not make it “better”. The tip off is the number of chapters (71) and how "The Departure" is Chapter 70, and "The 5th of October" is Chapter 71.