The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas • 1844
Devastation Rating
betrayal injustice historical literary fiction
Our Take
Revenge is a machine that runs on grief, and Edmond Dantès oils it for decades. Dumas writes justice as something that must be taken rather than given, and the machinery of the Count's revenge is magnificent and terrible. By the end it has cost him the things he set out to recover. What is left is not peace.
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