The Abbreviated Monte Cristo

"The Sultan of Monte Cristo" by Holy Ghost Writer (2013) "Holy Ghost Writer" is a pen name for an anonymous writer who sought to expand the Universe of Monte-Cristo by writing a series of books, starting in 2012-2013 that was supposed to take Edmond Dantes from his original adventure in The Count of Monte Cristo into the future with his descendants. It was a very ambitious goal, but remains unfulfilled. After a flurry of activity in 2013, and two books in 2015, HGW's Monte Cristo output died down. But more on this topic later. HGW's first book of the series is an abridged version of Dumas' original, with some Sherlock Holmes/Dr.Watson chatter inserted, so the book can be sold as The Count of Monte Cristo as Retold by Sherlock Holmes . For a complete review of that book, read it here (scroll to the final review on the page). Go to: Monte Cristo Abridged for Teens and Adults The Count and his new wife, Haydee are headed to Alban...

Section One: Text abridgements meant for Teens and Adults This section describes and reviews the various text abridgements of the novel, intended for teens and adults. Basically, the editors had approached the problem of reducing the original novel's length in several different ways: Removing a few lines or paragraphs within chapters Reducing chapters to summary paragraphs Hacking out entire chapters and removing some subplots and characters It's pretty consistent that certain in-book events were considered "disposable" by some editors and not by others. The following bits are the ones that are often removed: Dantes saves his old friends, the Morrel family, from financial ruin. Franz D'Epinay and Albert de Morcerf go to Rome and have the adventure of a lifetime. Villefort’s affair and secret illegitimate baby Caderousse murders the jeweler Maximilian Morrel and Va...