Big Two-Hearted River vs The Count of Monte Cristo: Which Should You Read?

Big Two-Hearted River Ernest Hemingway · 2000 ★★★★☆ 4.1 90 pages · ≈ 1 h 40 m · Moderate

[[Ernest Hemingway in 1923, two years before the publication of "Big Two-Hearted River"|alt=1923 photograph of Ernest Hemingway]]

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 1964 ★★★★☆ 4.4 242 pages · ≈ 4 h 29 m · Challenging

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only…