Don Quixote vs The Count of Monte Cristo: Which Should You Read?

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra & Edith Grossman ★★★★☆ 4.0 Challenging

Don Quixote is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes, written in Early Modern Spanish and published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. It is considered a founding work of Western literature and the first modern novel. It is also…

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…