After seeing this book frequently recommended on this site, I am putting a hold on it from the library. But I see multiple versions listed. Do people generally recommend the abridged version? My options are:
- Abridged
- Slightly abridged
- Edited edition
- Modern library edition
- New edition with revised translation
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Unabridged.
Unabridged. Book is so good.
Unabridged Buss translation Penguin Classics version as recommended by r/AReadingofMonteCristo
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Buss translation, unabridged is the best option. Avoids a lot of the missing content you get in other versions, even so-called unabridged translations which were over edited for victorian english sensibilities
SparkNotes version.
Absolutely unabridged. Granted, I never read any abridged version, so I don’t know what you would miss, but in the intricate web he weaves every strand in important.
Unabridged is the only answer. It is long af but everything is connected and comes together at the end in a beautiful sequence of back-to-back climaxes
If you read the abridged version, you’ll never know Edmund’s true feelings about Hashish.
Unabridged for sure. There are a couple of tedious sections in there but even they serve a purpose in the overall narrative. Plus it’s not a particularly dense text, so the 1500 or so pages just fly by anyways.