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Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Epic Page-turners: The Count of Monte Cristo & Les Miserables
Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Epic Page-turners: The Count of Monte Cristo & Les Miserables
Nov 25, 2025 9:51 PM

Author:Alexandre Dumas,Victor Hugo,Julie Rose

Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Epic Page-turners: The Count of Monte Cristo & Les Miserables

To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to tempt readers to discover and rediscover great books.

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantès spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works he uses all he has learnt during his incarceration to mastermind an elaborate plan of revenge that will bring punishment to those he holds responsible for his fate. No longer the naïve sailor who disappeared into the dark fortress all those years ago, he reinvents himself as the charming, mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo...

LES MISERABLES

Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Misérables is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. It is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, and his efforts to reform his ways and care for the little orphan girl he rescues from a life of cruelty, Victor Hugo drew attention to the plight of the poor and oppressed. Les Miserables is a masterful detective story, a comic and tragic story of romance and revolution and, ultimately, a tale of redemption and hope.

Reviews

What makes The Count Of Monte Cristo such a superior story is that revenge is not the only emotion driving the plot... it is an almost perfect story - also in the mix are love, friendship, jealousy, faith, education, snobbery and class

—— Sunday Express

LES MISERABLES - There are plenty of translations of this extensive, exuberant novel that cut out anything superfluous. But God is in the detail, and Julie Rose has returned all the detail, making a language that is rich and gorgeous. This is the one to read... and if you are flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still, rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page...

—— Jeanette Winterson , The Times

Afsaneh Knight's debut novel packs a steady and unrelenting series of punches... It's a book about love, but not sentimentality... all the better for its lack of easy answers

—— Vogue

Afsaneh Knight handles a shifting narrative with dexterity...deft and promising

—— Spectator

An interesting debut by a promising young writer

—— Times

I was gripped from the beginning....sharp and astringent with great emotion

—— Margaret Forster

Knight writes with grace and empathic imagination, delivering drama with a clenched fist. A gripping literary debut.

—— Melbourne Age
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