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Book Description
This brilliant recasting of the classic story The Count of Monte Cristo centers on Ned Maddstone, a happy, charismatic, Oxford-bound seventeen-year-old whose rosy future is virtually pre-ordained. Handsome, confident, and talented, newly in love with bright, beautiful Portia, his father an inContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 336 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0812968190
- ISBN-13: 9780812968194
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Pub date: May 13, 2003
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
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| 9780812968194 | Paperback | $14.95 | $12.78 | bn.com |
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guaddess 
Stephen Fry should be knighted or some such thing. He's a fantastic comedian, a talented actor, a brilliant writer, a master wit. He's got everything that can help make a book good, and this book is by no means an imitation. The ending and plot follow a rather different trajectory with a less sugary ... (continue)
Stephen Fry should be knighted or some such thing. He's a fantastic comedian, a talented actor, a brilliant writer, a master wit. He's got everything that can help make a book good, and this book is by no means an imitation. The ending and plot follow a rather different trajectory with a less sugary ending than Dumas' story, and the ending makes it his own more than any other part of the story.
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