A Journey from This World to the Next vs When the Going Was Good: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: English Authors, Voyages and travels, Description and travel, British and irish fiction, Travel, History
A Journey from This World to the Next
This unique double edition brings together Henry Fielding's two voyage narratives. A Journey from this World to the Next (1743) and The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755) belong, in different ways, to the…
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When the Going Was Good
With the publication of When the Going Was Good Little, Brown takes great pleasure in returning to print a classic of travel journalism. Between 1928 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh wrote four travel books: Labels, Remote People,…
The verdict
- Readers rate When the Going Was Good highest: When the Going Was Good 3.8 · A Journey from This World to the Next 3.5.
- A Journey from This World to the Next is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for When the Going Was Good.
- When the Going Was Good has the widest readership — 499 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| A Journey from This World to the Next | When the Going Was Good | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.2 (25) | 3.8 (499) |
Reception
| A Journey from This World to the Next | When the Going Was Good | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 25 | 499 |
| Editions | 13 | 39 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 53 | — |
| Written reviews | 5 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 138 |
| Pages | 143 | 316 |