The most recent (2003) unabridged translation by Buss is indispensable to fully appreciate the original story.

The author of The Count of Monte Cristo as Retold by Sherlock Holmes enjoyed the 2003 translation by Robin Buss of The Count of Monte Cristo, which helped to inspire both this work and the first sequel in this series, The Sultan of Monte Cristo. Books II and III, soon to follow, are wholly original sequels although they include characters from the original classic. The author consulted the original French as well as the oldest English translations of The Count of Monte Cristo, but the style of the retellling, in the distinctive voice of Sherlock Holmes, constitutes a new work. It includes exhilarating new adventures, characters, and ideas, carrying the reader through book I leading to book II and with book III promising an ever-expanding new series based on the classic. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.The Count of Monte Cristo as Retold by Sherlock Holmes begins with a condensed retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, related through the voice of Sherlock Holmes. Many of his novels, including 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'The Three Musketeers', 'Twenty Years After', and 'The Vicomte de Bragelonne' were serialised. AUTHOR: Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Dumas' novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero's ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill.

This title includes an introduction and notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Edmund Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence.

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