Adèle and Co. vs Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica: Which Should You Read?

Adèle and Co. Dornford Yates · 1931 ★★★★☆ 3.8 244 pages · ≈ 4 h 31 m · Moderate

The first full-length novel featuring Yates’ finest comic creation, Bertram "Berry" Pleydell. The central character Adele is based on the author’s first wife, Bettine, a gregarious American dancer and actress. After…

Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica John Kendrick Bangs · 1895 271 pages · ≈ 5 h 01 m · Challenging

“Napoleon's father, Charles Bonaparte, was the honored progenitor of thirteen children, of whom the man who subsequently became the Emperor of the French, by some curious provision of fate, was the second.”

A humorous fictionalisation of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte written by American author, editor and satirist John Kendrick Bangs. Very funny spoof biography of Napoleon, almost Marx-esque at some moments.