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Originally Posted by Catlady
So ... Three Musketeers shouldn't turn me off listening to Count of Monte Cristo? Whose narration did you listen to? I was planning on John Lee again.
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I actually listened to David Clarke's
excellent Librivox version. Don't be fooled by his first few sentences. His French accent and voices are great.
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Originally Posted by issybird
And yet, perversely, I liked the book for the portrayal of Lady de Winter, with her cunning and her refusal to accept the limitations of her position, both in particular and as a woman. She extricated herself from that convent, even from the hangman, and lived a large and powerful life. She was awesome. Events caught up with her, but so they did with Buckingham, as a real-life example. She still did very well by her time, when lives were short and brutish.
Yeah, I know we're supposed to find her evil, but I doubt the modern reader does.
<SNIP>
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And yet, still she is dead in the end.
