By Jack Black, Alexandre Dumas père
Comprises greater than 50 detailed illustrations.
"The count number of Monte Cristo" is among the so much enduring classics of English literature. it's a nice event novel loaded with good written characters and sufficient motion. Penned via Alexandre Dumas, it strains the lifetime of Edmond Dantes, a tender French sailor who's on the threshold of happiness and prosperity.
He has been made Captain of the Pharaon, and used to be approximately to marry his attractive fiance Mercedes. He used to be on the top of his future health and existence couldn't be extra ideal. yet then every thing replaced while on his marriage ceremony day, he was once falsely accused of treason via being a secret agent for Napoleon Bonaparte, and sentenced to existence imprisonment on an island off the coast.
Through his torturous incarceration, Dantes vows revenge on those that betrayed him. With assistance from a fellow inmate, Dantes does get away from felony besides a fortune that he had chanced on at the island.
Thus all started the revenge of Dantes, who arrives in France disguised as a mysterious nobleman, and seeks out the folks he idea have been his pals who had plotted on his imprisonment. The reader waits with bated breath for each incident to spread, and the topic of vendetta is brilliantly introduced out. the outcome is one in every of large pride as justice is completed and the inaccurate doers are punished, a topic as previous as eternity. it's a infrequent deal with to envision the wealthy prose of an impressive storyteller and "The count number of Monte Cristo" will stay the most effective stories ever informed within the heritage of literature.
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,6 I am no prophet舒and here舗s no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. Š And would it have been worth it, after all, After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a half7 To roll it toward some overwhelming question, To say: 舖I am Lazarus, come from the dead,8 Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all舗舒 If one, settling a pillow by her head, Should say: 舖That is not what I meant at all.
In 舖The Metaphysical Poets舗 ( 1921 ) he defined 舖dissociation of sensibility舗 as a break between feeling and thought that had occurred as English poetry was written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Eliot advocated the reuniting of emotion and intellect in works of literature. Eliot was also a playwright; among his major dramatic works are Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, The Cocktail Party, and The Elder Statesman. Shortly after the publication of his second masterpiece, Four Quartets (1943), Eliot received the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as countless awards and honorary doctorates.
I think Eliot intended that people not read the poem in isolation, because it makes sense only to the extent that we appreciate it as being in dialogue with the vast tradition that preceded it. Eliot makes this point in one of his best-known essays, 舖Tradition and the Individual Talent舗 (see 舖For Further Reading舗), where he writes, 舖No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.