"Some 200 yards in front of them "loomed the sheer black rock "from which,like a flinty...
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"Some 200 yards in front of them "loomed the sheer black rock "from which,
like a flinty excrescence, "rises the Chateau d'If." "To Dantès, who'd not been
thinking about it at all, "the sudden appearance
of this strange shape, "this prison shrouded
in such a deep terror, "this fortress
which for three centuries "has nourished Marseilles
with its gloomy legends, "had the same effect as
the spectacle of the scaffold "on a condemned man
like a flinty excrescence, "rises the Chateau d'If." "To Dantès, who'd not been
thinking about it at all, "the sudden appearance
of this strange shape, "this prison shrouded
in such a deep terror, "this fortress
which for three centuries "has nourished Marseilles
with its gloomy legends, "had the same effect as
the spectacle of the scaffold "on a condemned man
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"Some 200 yards in front of them
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"loomed the sheer black rock
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"from which,
like a flinty excrescence,
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"rises the Chateau d'If."
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"To Dantès, who'd not been
thinking about it at all,
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"the sudden appearance
of this strange shape,
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"this prison shrouded
in such a deep terror,
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"this fortress
which for three centuries
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"has nourished Marseilles
with its gloomy legends,
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"had the same effect as
the spectacle of the scaffold
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"on a condemned man.
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Movie Summary
Richard E Grant packs his clothes and a bag of books and travels to the locations authors have fictionalised to gain a sense of the places that inspired their novels.
