A review by mayog
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

4.0

Dumas, here, writes an extraordinary meditation on injustice, vengeance and grace creating as he does some memorable villains, and a protagonist struggling between the poles of justice and mercy. Written as a serial for a paper it, at times, suffers from too much by way of description and could have used an editor. However, the plot and characters more than atone for this, especially the central struggle over what justice looks like kfor a man who has been truly, deeply wronged.