Septiembre vs The Newcomes: Which Should You Read?

Septiembre Rosamunde Pilcher · 1901 ★★★★☆ 4.2 531 pages · ≈ 9 h 50 m · Challenging

“IN EARLY MAY, THE SUMMER CAME, at last, to Scotland.”

Con motivo de una fiesta de cumpleaños, una serie de personajes procedentes de Inglaterra. Estados Unidos, Escocia y España coinciden en el pequeño pueblo de Strachroy. En Septiembre, en Escocia, se prodigan…

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray · 1853 ★★★★☆ 3.7 801 pages · ≈ 14 h 50 m · Demanding

“A CROW, who had flown away with a cheese from a diary window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.”

The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a…