![]() The effect is jarring the storytelling shifts from a recap to the wholly unfamiliar, rendering Dantes’s early adventures almost a calm precursor to what follows. While the original ends with a chagrined Dantes who’s no longer convinced of the value of revenge, The Sovereign Order allows room for the continuation of his tale. The bulk of the novel reintroduces Dantes to the audience, distilling Dumas’s story of betrayal and revenge and funneling it through the voice of Sherlock Holmes, who alters little from Dantes’s familiar plot. ![]() ![]() With audacity and breadth, Holy Ghost Writer takes great bombastic liberties with classic characters and historical events.Īn anonymously penned tome comprised of three previously independent novels, The Sovereign Order of Monte Cristo offers an abridgment of Dumas’s classic as well as a feverish and consumptive retelling of nineteenth-century history with Edmond Dantes at the center. Newly Discovered Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Special Edition) ![]()
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