The Abbreviated Monte Cristo

Section Six: Infodumps of Monte Cristo Just in case anyone would want to do a deeper dive, and would like to see my data (used in compiling all the information on this site), I am making my research available. The most logical way of  aggregating all this information was an Excel spreadsheet. The presence, or absence of various chapters or plot points in order to compare them became very obvious when placed together this way. For the serious text abridgements (for teens and adults), going chapter-by-chapter made the most sense. But, due to the various methods used to abridge the novel, some chapters were only partly present, with the rest left on the cutting room floor. So, I started to use the "P" (partial) and "S" (summarized) indicators in my later research stages. Link: Teen & Adult books For children's books and comics, going chapter-by-chapter made no sense. Because those books were less than 1/1

 The Abbreviated Monte Cristo Everything you've ever wanted to know about Abridged editions, Children's editions, Comics and Manga and Movie versions of The Count of Monte Cristo It's an age-old question, "I've heard of/someone recommended to me/I've seen the movie The Count of Monte Cristo , and I want to read the book now! There's so many different ones floating around! Which one should I get?" The answer is not exactly easy or obvious. Different audiences have different needs, expectations and desires. The actual Alexandre Dumas novel was written in 1844 in French, and was quickly translated into English. The most famous unabridged English edition was done in 1846, and published by Chapman-Hall and is in public domain and is available for free on the Internet . Alternatively, there is a revised, re-translated unabridged edition by R

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