Condensed novels vs Openings in the Old Trail: Which Should You Read?

Condensed novels Bret Harte · 1867 ★★★★☆ 3.8 219 pages · ≈ 4 h 03 m · Challenging

The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him…

Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte · 1902 ★★★★☆ 3.8 164 pages · ≈ 3 h 02 m · Challenging

It was high hot noon on the Casket Ridge. Its very scant shade was restricted to a few dwarf Scotch firs, and was so perpendicularly cast that Leonidas Boone, seeking shelter from the heat, was obliged to draw himself…