The Count of Monte Cristo will get you: he will have his revenge

cross-bloggingThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas serialized 1844-46, published in book form 1846this is a first for the blog: I created this image with AI. But I won't be making a habit of it. A subject for discussion...? My good friend Chrissie Poulson and I decided to read this book and do some joint blogging on it. For various reasons it has taken us a while to get to that point, but here we go! We are both posting today, and Chrissie’s post is on her blog CHRISTINE POULSON A Reading Life - CHRISTINE POULSON I have a long history with this book. When I was in primary school there was a teatime serial of it on the BBC, and I was mesmerised, particularly by that business of his escaping by pretending to be the dead body. They put a children's version of the book in the school library, and I can still visualize it, feel it in my hands, oh the excitement - and it was a new shiny book too, I presume connected to the serial. (And very much abridged, it was just a normal-sized…