A Prisoner in Fairyland vs The Machine Stops: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: English literature, Children's fiction, Fiction

Cover of A Prisoner in Fairyland

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood · 1913 506 pages · ≈ 9 h 22 m · Moderate Find on Amazon

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Cover of The Machine Stops

The Machine Stops E. M. Forster · 1909 ★★★★☆ 4.1 36 pages · ≈ 40 min · Moderate Find on Amazon

The verdict

The Machine Stops is the quicker read — about 1 hours vs 9 for A Prisoner in Fairyland.

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