I have read many classic novels.  I have even struggled through Don Quixote.
Ah, the man of the mancha!  His windmills and donkey - LOL!  I'm actually trying to go through some of the classics as an adult now - some are still hard to understand.
Yes! ol' Sancho Panza, poor fellow.  Have you read much Dickens?
No, not much Dickens.  I'd like to, but have only read bits and pieces.  My daughter and I are trying to struggle through the Scarlet Letter right now.
I love the Scarlet Letter, although it is a bit dense at times.  The exploration of the puritan morality of the era is fascinating.  Have you read anything else by Hawthorne?
No, we are still struggling with this one - LOL!!  But I have a list of ones she is to read this year, and some short stories also.
J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger (; January 1, 1919 January 27, 2010) was an American writer known for his novel "The Catcher in the Rye". He was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories while in secondary school. His father urged him to learn about the meat-importing business; he went to work in Europe but was so disgusted by the slaughterhouses that he decided to embark on a different career path. He left Austria one month before it was annexed by Nazi Germany on March 12
costume from his trunk, and transforms himself into Alonso Quijano, an old gentleman who has read so many books of chivalry and thought so much about injustice that he has lost his mind and set out as a knight-errant. Quijano renames himself Don Quixote de La Mancha, and goes off to find adventures with his "squire", Sancho Panza. ("Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)")
Don Quixote warns Sancho that they are always in danger of being attacked by Quixote's mortal