The Count of Monte Cristo Chapters 34-37: A Philosophy of Retribution, a Carnival, and a Kidnapping

Hi there, readers! 

It was sure interesting to hear from so many of you who felt the same lack of narrative propulsion in last week’s reading. The tone just felt so different; Dantes really did shed the man we knew before. That’s not to say he’s a villain, necessarily, but that the earnest young man we met in the first hundred pages or so has been throug…