A Prisoner in Fairyland vs Rinkitink in Oz: Which Should You Read?

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood · 1913 ★★★★☆ 3.8 506 pages · ≈ 9 h 22 m · Moderate

“Minks-Herbert Montmorency-was now something more than secretary, even than private secretary: he was confidential-private-secretary, adviser, friend; and this, more because he was a safe receptacle for his employer's enthusiasms than because his advice or judgment had any exceptional value.”

In the train, even before St. John's was passed, a touch of inevitable reaction had set in, and Rogers asked himself why he was going. For a sentimental journey was hardly in his line, it seemed. But no satisfactory…

Rinkitink in Oz L. Frank Baum · 1916 ★★★★☆ 3.8 132 pages · ≈ 2 h 27 m · Moderate

“If you have a map of the Land of Oz handy, you will find that the great Nonestic Ocean washes the shores of the Kingdom of, between which and the Land of Oz lies a strip of the country of the Nome King and a Sandy Desert.”

When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.