El Quijote is a great novel for a reason

It is very difficult to understand, not only the story itself, but the spanish used is sometimes archaic, and it has a richness of vocabulary that surpases what an average spaniard handle in all his life.

If I recall it well, I think that an average spaniard handles 5,000 words or so, while El Quijote uses about 20,000 or more...

It is the essence of spanish language.

Fernando