A Far Country vs Van Bibber and Others: Which Should You Read?

A Far Country Winston Churchill · 1915 ★★★☆☆ 3.4 106 pages · ≈ 1 h 58 m · Challenging

Follows the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood. There he travels from Britain to America where he later becomes a very prosperous man.

Van Bibber and Others Richard Harding Davis · 1892 ★★★★☆ 3.9 249 pages · ≈ 4 h 37 m · Challenging

“IT was at the end of the first act of the first night of "The Sultana," and every member of the Lester Comic Opera Company, from Lester himself down to the wardrobe woman's son, who would have had to work if his mother lost her place, was sick with anxiety.”

In "Van Bibber and Others," Richard Harding Davis crafts a collection of short stories that encapsulate the spirited social dynamics of the turn of the 20th century. With his characteristic wit and keen observational…