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The Count of Monte Cristo is also featured on today's Google Doodle. Does anyone know why? It is not Alexandre Dumas' birthday. Coincidentally, I am in the middle of this novel. It is pretty long :-)

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Today is the anniversary of the publication of the first installment of "The Count of Monte Cristo" in the newspaper "Journal des Débats"(in 1884).

I had the site ready for launch today and already including "The Count of Monte Cristo", but I pushed the book to be the first one on the list and mention it in the title precisely because of the Google Doodle.

You’ve quoted google’s write up, but surely they made a mistake - the year should be “1844”, no?

https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-alexandre-dumas

You are right! I did a better research while creating the site, so it is correct there. To answer this question I just went to check Google's explanation and copied their mistake.

Yes, 1844 is the correct year.

(I can't edit my reply above anymore)

If you can find the Robin Buss translation (Penguin books in the UK) it's definitely superior to the public domain one.

I am reading the French language public domain version which has its own problems; words running together and occasional spelling mistakes. I often come across these problems with public domain books (in French, at least).

It's the anniversary of the publication of (the first volume of) The Count of Monte Cristo

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