David Copperfield [adaptation] vs The Count of Monte Cristo: Which Should You Read?

David Copperfield [adaptation] Malvina G. Vogel · 1979 ★★★★☆ 3.9 239 pages · ≈ 4 h 26 m · Light

A simplified edition of the autobiographical novel whose hero, an orphan boy in nineteenth-century England, successfully overcomes an unhappy childhood.

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 1964 ★★★★☆ 4.5 242 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…