Words&Dirt

“It is easy for one of judgment and learning, to perceive the weak foundation even of those systems, which have obtain’d the greatest credit, and have carried their pretensions highest to accurate and profound reasoning. Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduc’d from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the [...]

I don’t know what state the revenge narrative was in before The Count of Monte Cristo hit the scene, but this book remains a paragon of the genre nearly two centuries after publication. Alexandre Dumas’s classic is deeply concerned with the character of human happiness and suffering, and challenges readers to cherish what good fortune [...]