Section Two: Monte Cristo for Kids
Section Two: Monte Cristo for Kids Ah! Children's editions! Since The Count of Monte Cristo is almost 200 years old, and by a famous author, it's been adapted many times into a child-friendly package, perfect for a bedtime story! Classics Illustrated has set the bar pretty high- by proving that the entire novel, with subplots, can be shoehorned into less than 100 pages. The children's text editions have a tendency to do away with the violence, emphasize Dantes' imprisonment and escape, and cut corners on the "revenge" part. Some add child-friendly humorous scenes, have radical "re-interpretations" of the events and/or add manufactured happy endings (usually involving Dantes/The Count getting back together with Mercedes). They also draw strict lines between good/evil, with the protagonist, Dantes, as "good" and the Villefort/Fernand/Danglars trio as "evil". I've done a site-wid...