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0:00 why read The Count of Monte Cristo
2:30 how to choose the right translation
4:00 on the Robin Buss Penguin translation
5:00 the influential anonymous translation
6:00 Buss’ approach to translating Dumas
9:00 translation comparison taste-test
13:00 the first readers of Alexandre Dumas
14:00 on the story’s serialised publication
15:00 the benefits of delayed gratification
17:00 the golden age of serial literature
18:00 Monte Cristo’s publication history
19:00 Alexandre Dumas’ writing process
20:00 collaborators in the fiction factory
21:00 Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
21:30 Alexandre Dumas’ historical frames
22:30 how to pace your reading of this book
24:00 how to appreciate great storytelling
25:00 studying popular imaginative literature
26:00 the influence of romance stories
27:00 on Classicism vs Romanticism
28:00 protect yourself from plot spoilers
29:00 why do we read great literature?
30:00 how to befriend Alexandre Dumas
31:00 meeting the great writer’s father
32:00 on Napoleon and French History
33:00 inspiration from the real life Monte Cristo
35:00 Dumas’ love of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
36:00 how Dumas originally began the story
37:00 relating to the pain of Edmond Dantès
38:00 appreciating the character of Abbé Faria
39:00 how to bring yourself to the story
40:00 on the themes of revenge and justice
42:00 on the power of communal reading