Section One: Text abridgements meant for Teens and Adults
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...