In the days of the comet vs The Napoleon of Notting Hill: Which Should You Read?

In the days of the comet H. G. Wells · 1906 ★★★☆☆ 3.3 240 pages · ≈ 4 h 27 m · Challenging

H. G. Wells, in his 1906 In the Days of the Comet uses the vapors of a comet to trigger a deep and lasting change in humanity's perspective on themselves and the world. In the build-up to a great war, poor student…

The Napoleon of Notting Hill Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1904 ★★★★☆ 3.8 150 pages · ≈ 2 h 47 m · Challenging

A witty and surreal novel of the future. In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war…