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Revenge
Revenge
Author: Stephen Fry
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 influential MP, Ned leads a charmed life. But privilege ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812968194
ISBN-10: 0812968190
Publication Date: 5/2003
Pages: 336
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 19 ratings
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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mpontalba avatar reviewed Revenge on + 43 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Stephen Fry, noted British actor, humorist, and presenter, retells Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo with a modern setting. Fry has done more than simply assign anagramed names to the main characters (Edmond Dantes=Ned Maddstone and the Count becomes Simon Cotter); he has reworked this tale of unjust imprisonment and obsessive revenge until the mechanics of it are totally believable.

I came to this book because I wanted to see what kind of writer Fry is. The book is a bit out of my genre, but I found it entertaining and a quick read.
gaslight avatar reviewed Revenge on + 145 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A very inventive and fun re-do of The Count of Monte Cristo with all the attendant coincidences and narrative goal of the original. I've read and listened to this book (narrated by Fry himself) and I think hearing it has added enjoyment.
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Helpful Score: 1
Really enjoyed this book. Not my usual cup of tea, but it was engaging.
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Great book! Very entertaining.


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