Sugestions please

Hi i am new to this website and i was wondering if you guys could give me some suggestions.

I am looking for a great book of revenge.

Keep in mind that my favorite book is the count of monte cristo

thanks

any one?

I would suggest Poe's The Cask of Amontillado; a short story to begin with :) Horrific revenge ..

I would also suggest Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Euripides' Medea, Aeschylus' Agamemnon.

Others can suggest more modern ones too since I am fan of the classics :D

Take care :)

Give the people some time to respond, I think there are very few people smashing the F5 button and waiting for new topics to pop up. Give it some time and I'm pretty sure there are quite a few replies to your request.
@ topic: I can only think of Shakespeare's plays and Melville's Moby Dick, but I'm not quite sure if that's what you are looking for.

thanks-ill look into those....i too enjoy the classics

fell free others to post more

greatly appreciated!

In before any other Dostoevskians(?):

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky or pretty much anything by him.
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maybe Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Who knows, maybe you'll like 'em

Definately - Titus Andronicus

Kind of, maybe revengy - Shalimar the Clown, The Illiad

What about the 'Odyssey' too? Though the story concerns Odysseus returning home after the events in the Iliad, there is revenge at the story's conclusion.

Also, if you like Monte Cristo, you should like Raphael Sabatini's 'Scaramouche' and other books by him. Also, check out some of Sir Walter Scott's novels, like 'Ivanhoe'.

Wuthering Heights is largely the story of Heathcliff's revenge against two families who wronged him.

Othello (if, of course, plays are allowed:))

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Othello (if, of course, plays are allowed:))

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Revenge? Roderigo maybe, but I think that is rather minor.

If drama is included, there is a great choice among the sixteenth/ early seventeenth century Revenge tragedies. The Spanish Tragedy is possibly the earliest in the genre. Vengeance is personified as Vendice in The Revenger's Tragedy and if you like your body count high (and imaginitively achieved) then Women Beware Women is suitably horrific. Then there is Hamlet, of course.

There is a book entitled I Will Repay by, I think, Baroness Orczy, in the Monte Cristo vein.

not a classic, but The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry is pretty much a modern reworking of The Count of Monte Cristo

thanks guys

these are all really good ideas-so much for me to choose

Hmm, how about Phèdre by Racine?

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Revenge? Roderigo maybe, but I think that is rather minor.

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Othello is totally about jealousy and revenge. And I agree about Titus Andronicus.

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