The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

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1. Robert DugoniInterview
2. Dani RodrikInterview

   That’s a tough one. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (in Turkish translation) somehow sticks in my mind, though I am not at all sure it was the first full-length book I read.

3. Monica HanksInterview

   I’ve read the unabridged Les Miserables by Victor Hugo at least three times. It is definitely my all-time favorite book! I love the characters, the emotion of the story, and watching the characters grow over the course of the book. The unabridged The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is a close second! I’ve…

4. Andrew KlavanInterview

   Really depends on who they are and what I think they’d like. For history buffs, From Dawn to Decadence by Jaques Barzun. For recent fiction, probably The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. For great old fiction, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

5. Simon MajumdarInterview

   It is more a series of books. At Junior school we would often read abridged editions of classics and I just ate them up. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. They sparked off a love of literature that has never left me.

6. Tracy WiseInterview

   I have my mother’s copies of her Georgette Heyer books; she opened up the world of Regency England to me. The Narnia and Lord of the Rings series I strongly associate with my brother. For my dad, the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling along with the Wheel of Time series. And, I read The Count of Monte Cristo because…

7. Eric LanlardInterview

   Agatha Christie, as she will probably organise a murder mystery at the aperitif and will have it solved by the time the dessert is served. Julia Child, the US food writer, as she will help me to cook some fabulous classic dishes without all the modern gimmick; and I will love her to shout her trade mark “Bonne…

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