The Washington Post, August 13th, 2006
There was a golden time this summer that I shall always remember as belonging to Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo. It spreads over 35 CDs, the greatest of all adventure and revenge tales, an unimaginable wealth comparable only to the treasures that became Edmond Dantes's (Books on Tape, $119.20, www.booksontape.com). The novel is read by Englishman Richard Matthews, a veteran of many swashbucklers and holder of almost as many aliases as Dantes himself, being, at different times and other places, Simon Vance and Robert Whitfield. His delivery is slow and pellucid, and, unlike so many...
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