La tulipe noire vs The deluge: Which Should You Read?

La tulipe noire Alexandre Dumas · 1800 ★★★★☆ 3.9 276 pages · ≈ 5 h 07 m · Challenging

On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with…

The deluge Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1888 ★★★★☆ 4.2 681 pages · ≈ 12 h 37 m · Demanding

This is Volume 2 of the Curtin translation, first published in 1898. This is NOT the more modern Kuniczak translation of 1991 that many people prefer, despite what you can see as the book cover on the screen.