Edmond Dantès
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in derivative works and the adaptation history of The Count of Monte Cristo
- Students of 19th-century American literature and intertextual relations with European motifs
- Readers accustomed to English-language public-domain ebooks who enjoy popular narrative
- English learners seeking free English texts for extensive reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a sequel to Dumas's original or an official continuation of the canon
- Readers who prefer fast-paced modern genre fiction with strong twists
- Beginners with weak English reading skills who need Chinese annotations
Reading tips
- First learn the main character relationships in The Count of Monte Cristo to reduce comprehension obstacles before starting this book.
- Read it as a 19th-century American popular novel and focus on the author's choices and rewritings of the original characters.
- Read alongside the relevant chapters of the original and note differences in characterization and plot direction.
- For the English public-domain text, read in sections with a dictionary at hand, about one chapter at a time.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Edmund Flagg (1815–1890) was an American writer, lawyer and diplomat. His life is little known in the Chinese-speaking world, and publicly available information about him is limited. Three of his works are held here, spanning a considerable range of subjects: a travel account recording what he observed in the American Far West in 1836–1837, and two sequels to The Count of Monte Cristo, namely Edmond Dantès and Monte-Cristo's Daughter. The former is a documentary travelogue preserving observations of journeys in the West at that time; the latter continues Dumas's narrative framework, using its classic characters to develop new plots. He also wrote historical romances and business reports, which shows that his writing embraced both literature and practical affairs rather than confining itself to a single genre. Overall, his travel writing and his sequels to a classic best display his individual character and remain the main way readers today come to know him.
