Harvey wrote a total of about 50,000 words in three days, and the cost was that he spent almost all his time except eating, sleeping, and going to the bathroom. Leonard Publishing requires a minimum of 30,000 words in order to be selected for publication and printed in one volume.

This call for novels is published in a bound collection, requiring more than 2,000 words per day, and all published novels are bound into the same publication, similar to the situation of the story club, and the bound novels will be sold on odd days every month, Harvey seems to be more like a simplified version of the later JUMP comics.

The famous French writer Alexandre Dumas spent a year and a half to create "The Count of Monte Cristo", about 900,000 words, and was serialized in the "Argumentate" in Paris, France, during which he revisited the Catalan fishing village and the Château d'If and was serialized intermittently, knocking on the door of popular fiction in that era, and carrying forward the classification of popular novels, "The Count of Monte Cristo" has become the pride of the Marseille people, and there are also rue de Cristo named after this novel, rue Edmond Dantès and so on.

The wide impact shows the social sensation caused by "The Count of Monte Cristo" at that time, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a social phenomenon of that era.

It is not that there have been articles on the classification of popular novels before, but at that time, the status of popular novels was like the existence of Chinese online literature on the earth, and it was not recognized by mainstream literature. The same is true of the world, where there is only a vague definition of popular fiction, and veteran reviewer Mottley has never seen such a peculiar novel.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" is easy to understand, just 50,000 words but fascinating, the whole article does not deliberately show any human morality, but uses the plot to advance all this, the characters in the novel every word and deed naturally express the different concepts in the world of the novel, express their own identity and position.

The story is set in the Augustinian kingdom a hundred years ago, the difference in the concept of rule between the king and the nobles, the cruelty of the political struggle explained by the nobles, and the protagonist is the innocent victim who is involved in this dispute. Being wrongfully imprisoned at the best of your life can already make kind-hearted readers feel angry just by that.

Compared with the original "The Count of Monte Cristo", Harvey did not have a wealth of knowledge and insights, and it was impossible for him to personally visit the kingdom of Augustine, so he paid more attention to the plot performance, and the conflict between the characters and classes was not difficult to create with reference to the novel itself and his experience as a later character.

As with The Count of Monte Cristo, Harvey needed to incorporate theatrical elements and quote classic quotes to wrap the work itself.

Harvey divides "The Count of Monte Cristo" into three parts, the first part is about Edmund being wrongfully imprisoned and meeting Father Faria, the first part is to redeem him, the second part is revenge, and the third part is revenge.

50,000 words can only be regarded as the beginning of the story, a young man who has been caught up in an innocent struggle finds a ray of light to redeem him in a desperate situation, and nothing else can be seen.

Mottley is a senior reviewer, but he can find clues to deduce the story network of the whole work with little information in the eyes of ordinary people, and now he is also a little confused, and he can't let go of the novel manuscript for a long time.

"It's certain that this novel is not classical, the story is clear, and the protagonist should be Edmund, the imprisoned captain, but what can he do? How can a person who has been labeled a dangerous political outlaw break out of this difficult situation? The priest who was considered insane by the prison guards must have been an important clue. ”

"The plot of the novel is very smooth, especially after Edmund was imprisoned, you can feel the despair and madness that has been suppressed to the extreme between the lines, and the handwriting of this part of the manuscript has become more messy, but it is done in one go, but it's a pity! Published works cannot be published by handwriting, and this part of the plot will lack some flavor after printing. ”

It was late at night

After reading the 50,000-word novel, he still can't forget it, the current progress of the plot of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is like opening a huge net to firmly trap his mind, and he can't help but guess the fate of any of the characters in it, will Edmund prove his innocence and get out of prison, what is happening to Edmund's young and beautiful fiancée now, who is the person who framed him, and the identity of the mad priest, why is he imprisoned in a poor environment in the bottom prison.

Masterpiece! This is an undoubted masterpiece! In his career as a reviewer, he has rarely encountered a work that has attracted him so much, the last one was five years ago, and that novel has now become a well-known classic in the kingdom of Barron.

Mottley was glad that he had asked for a review, because he had not missed a brilliant work, and he felt regretful that it did not belong to him after all, and that if Pran could seize this opportunity, there was a good chance that he would become famous in one fell swoop. From the outset, he explained that Harvey was that there was a dispute between their reviewers about the work, and that Motley had no intention of snatching the opportunity to belong to another reviewer, whether the work was good or bad.

"I hope this work will change his attitude as a reviewer, at least so that he will no longer have disagreement about what he writes." Motley was reluctant to put "The Count of Monte Cristo" in the folder.

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The next day, Motley found Puran to return a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo.

"Mr. Evelyn, I just said that Harvey Adrian doesn't know anything about fiction, and the work he creates is simply not qualified." Plane said with a little smugness, thinking that Motley must have thought that the manuscript of the novel had not met the publishing standards since he returned it.

Motley frowned and shook his head: "Garcia, you haven't seen this work yet, it's up to you to judge whether this work is good or bad, but if you choose to give up, I will take over this work from Mr. Harvey Adrian, and the choice is yours." ”

Puran was stunned for a moment, sensing a different meaning in Motley's tone, he was going to take over this novel, which means that this novel has passed the publishing standard in Motley's heart?

How can it be! Motley was known for his criticality in Leonard, and his perennial role as a reviewer gave him a very high eye for novels.

Motley is not a joker, and Plan's face was cloudy, and after taking over the manuscript of "The Count of Monte Cristo", he nodded in response: "Well, since Mr. Evelyn said so, I will review this work well." ”

The two didn't talk much, Puran went back and opened the folder and began to watch "The Count of Monte Cristo" carefully, the unconventional font still made him a little resistant, originally planned to read it hard, but after carefully reading the content of the two chapters, his attention was unconsciously poured into the plot.