The last Puritan vs Windy McPherson's son: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The last Puritan The last Puritan George Santayana · 1935 ★★★★☆ 3.8 602 pages · ≈ 11 h 09 m · Challenging
“In the first years after the war Mario Van de Weyer was almost my neighbour in Paris, for he lived just where the Left Bank ceases to be the Latin Quarter and I where it is not yet the Faubourg Saint Germain.”

"Published in 1935, George Santayana's The Last Puritan was the American philosopher's only novel and it became an instant best seller, immediately linked in its painful voyage of self-discovery to The Education of…

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Cover of Windy McPherson's son Windy McPherson's son Sherwood Anderson · 1916 ★★★★☆ 3.6 330 pages · ≈ 6 h 07 m · Challenging

This is a Historical Fiction Book. The bookl tells that A young boy grows up in rural Iowa. "At the beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam McPherson, a tall big-boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair,…

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The last PuritanWindy McPherson's son
Goodreads 3.8 (114) 3.5 (65)

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The last PuritanWindy McPherson's son
Ratings 114 65
Editions 12 19
Citations 7 1
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 780 130
Reading it now 6 9
Written reviews 28 15
Wikipedia attention 373 104
Pages 602 330

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