> > > Besides the translations, another problem is that publishers put out > edited/abridged versions of classics with cover material that doesn't > mention this. I had a great time this year chomping through ~1500 > pages of the original anonymous English translation of Count of Monte > Cristo. But before I settled on that I had been misled by a > "shortened" ~800 page edition, which definitely did not read well. > Investigating this issue, I found other ~200 and ~400 page versions > too! >
Anonymity for the > 1000-page edition seems puzzling -- if it was the Penguin black classics edition, it's by Robin Buss. Well worth reading. The novel form was invented for Dumas to have fun with.
