The Count of Monte Cristo (AmazonClassics Edition)

De: Alexandre Dumas

Narrado por: Guy Mott

After fourteen years of wrongful imprisonment, merchant sailor Edmond Dantès escapes his grim island fortress. With the promises of youth erased and his betrothed now married to someone else, Dantès lives for one purpose: revenge. Thanks to a benevolent prison confidante who reveals the location of a hidden treasure, Dantès buys his way, unrecognized, into society. Adopting a new identity as the Count of Monte Cristo, he sets out to destroy the rivals who framed him for treason. But the count’s obsessive quest could have irrevocable consequences for the innocent - and for himself.

What unfolds is an epic tale of breathtaking intrigue and righteous retribution from Alexandre Dumas, the nineteenth-century master of high adventure.

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A True Classic of Literature

A fantastic story, worth listening to. The accents for each character made it very easy to identify them, but sometimes were too forced and overbearing.

Intriguing classic with perfect narration!

Guy Mott has with this performance become one of my favourite narrators. Works at normal and 2x speed for me and was a pleasure to listen to.

Great story, fair translation, bad narration

Regarding the story, it's great. It's a "page-turner" that I went back and forth listening and reading. It's thoroughly enjoyable. The translation is pretty good. It's more simplified than other versions.

Now, onto the narration. It was not good for this book. The narrator is engaging and can do a good amount of varied voices. The problem is that the accents are horrendous. He used all kinds of accents liberally. British, and absolutely horrendous French and Italian. It was just so bad that it's grating on the ear. The Italian sounded like he was trying to be Dracula. for such a long audiobook, choose your narrator wisely. Listen to the previews.

Great narrative. Great use of accents.

He uses accents to depict different characters from different countries. Not difficult to understand and can tell who is speaking by the different voices he uses. Doesn't take away from the story at all.

Incredible work

This story is masterfully written. I love how the author connects so many little stories and details together perfectly to make a cohesive whole! The narrator in this one is also excellent- he maintains a number of accents and voices to help distinguish among characters.

The Count

It would be a disservice to oneself if you hadn’t read this magnificent book by Dumas with its rich characters and labyrinthine maze of honor, deceit and revenge. A masterpiece.

I loved this book

One of the best books I have ever read. They story was engrossing and the details about the characters Paris, Italy and Marseille were excellent. I live in Paris and loved stopping by the addresses of the story just to see the neighborhoods. I alsot made a trip to Marseille and visited the Chateau d'If and it really brought alive Dumas' description. A must for all Monte Cristo fans. After all these years, the story has aged incredibly well.

The language was beautiful and I actually learned some new vocabulary to boot; I never knew the use of the word "countenance" to mean face.

One little nit was that the accents of the bad guys all seemed to be cockney, not French. I realize the narrator was English and there were so many characters, but the bad guys with English accents? Amusing.

Best book ever ❤

This is a fabulous book, I It was very impressed because it is a 100 times better than the movie ever was any of the movies that have been done based on this book I recommended highly to anyone everyone best book ever.

Upon My Word

Wow… I have seen the movie about 10 times, and it has been one of my absolute favorite movies for a long time, but this book has taken me to the heights of excitements and lows of despair and every emotion in between. It has been one of my most enjoyable fiction reads in a long time. I will probably listen to it again. I have never been so invested in a story. The narrator does an amazing job, probably could not have made it through the end without such superb narration. The characters have all been richly written.

better than I thought

While the novel was a bit wordy, overall it kept my attention. The first 20% of the book had me hooked and I wanted to know how Dantes would get revenge!
It was slow in the making but oh did he set plans. He was very unhappy though and I was worried how it would end.
Very intriguing story and I was invested in the characters 😊
Much better than I imagined it would be. Now I understand the fascination with this classic 😁