The Abbreviated Monte Cristo

The Treasure of Monte Cristo by Jules Lermina (1885) Le Trésor de Monte-Cristo (French) Jules Lermina Jules Lermina must've really needed the money. Four years after the previous "conclusion" that the Lermina-verse had brought us- the pitiful death of Edmond Dantes huddled over the coffin of his boy Spero, Lermina cranked out ANOTHER Monte Cristo sequel. But the pickings had become quite slim indeed... who's going to be the hero of the new story? Lermina had wiped out everybody besides Eugenie! No chance for the Count to have had another child. Albert never reproduced. Max and Val killed off... what to do? What to do???  Lermina creates "The NewFoundland Club", a multi-national group fighting the tyranny and oppression of victimized/conquered peoples as the next generation of good guys. And Valentin Morrel makes his first appearance on page 439! But who can be the villain this time? Lermina desperately grasps at straws and taps o...

The Son of Monte Cristo, Vol. II by Jules Lermina (1881) Jules Lermina Back for more agony? Must know what the Lermina-verse has in store for the Count of Monte Cristo? I have the full scoop! I read this entire piece of trash so you don't have to! For people looking for Part 1 of my Jules Lermina book review, it's on a separate page and you can read it here! Read review of Book I (Lermina) By the way, there are 1940's era movies also titled "The Son of Monte Cristo" and "The Wife of Monte Cristo". These have nothing to do with the books by Jules Lermina. The movies are Hollywood productions with their own screenplays and writers, capitalizing on the success of the none-too-book-accurate 1934 movie, "The Count of Monte Cristo" starring Robert Donat.  BOOK II: Part 3: Fanfaro "The Adventures of Fanfaro" follows the new main-character that we'd JUST MET. None of this involves The Count, Haydee, or ...

The Wife of Monte Cristo or The Son of Monte Cristo, Vol. I by Jules Lermina (1881) Jules Lermina While doing some searches on the Internet for "more Monte Cristo", readers have no doubt located some references to books: The Wife of Monte Cristo and/or The Son of Monte Cristo, or sometimes, Monte-Cristo and the Countess . A lot of these editions are vaguely worded as " The [...] of Monte Cristo , sequel to The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas." But don't be fooled! They are not by Dumas. They were written by Frenchman Jules Lermina, who lifted whole passages from the original, and "continued the journey" of the Count, his friends and enemies. There are 2 different English-Language translations/edits. I had read the shorter one (translated by Jacob Abarbanell), so it might be possible that the longer one has fewer plot holes. Since this is dreck anyway, I will not be reading the longer one. I did a quick peek, and the...