“You know – said Caderousse, - you can be surer that you’ve killed a man with this, than waiting in the ambush at the end of the forest to stab him. I’ve always felt more fear of a feather, a vial with ink and a piece of paper than of sword or a pistol.”
A Bulgarian with French ancestors – Alfred Foskolo, a contemporary Monte Cristo who was sentenced in Bulgarian prison due to a report to the authorities, tells his own personal story, because this Dumas’ novel deserves to become the favorite Bulgarian novel.