Monte-Cristo

I have a hard time believing that Alexander Dumas was “inspired” throughout the entire 1500 pages of Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.

Why You Should Stop Waiting for Inspiration | Write to Done 2009

But only novels with an extraliterary reputation, which have clambered off the page into a culture of received images—The Count of Monte-Cristo, perhaps, or The War of the Worlds or even Lolita, I am sorry to say—will lend themselves to future mashups with a user interface.

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But only novels with an extraliterary reputation, which have clambered off the page into a culture of received images—The Count of Monte-Cristo, perhaps, or The War of the Worlds or even Lolita, I am sorry to say—will lend themselves to future mashups with a user interface.

Literary mashups 2010

Monte-Cristo, built and maintained at a fabulous cost, probably did more than anything else to ruin Dumas financially.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

He built a castle in the suburbs and called it Monte-Cristo.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

He built a castle in the suburbs and called it Monte-Cristo.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

Monte-Cristo, built and maintained at a fabulous cost, probably did more than anything else to ruin Dumas financially.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

Monte-Cristo, built and maintained at a fabulous cost, probably did more than anything else to ruin Dumas financially.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

He built a castle in the suburbs and called it Monte-Cristo.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

Giacomo informed Monte-Cristo that unless a calm should suddenly come on they would certainly arrive at Crete by noon.

Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg