Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic vs The Moon Pool: Which Should You Read?

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic Thomas Wentworth Higginson · 1898 ★★★★☆ 3.7 140 pages · ≈ 2 h 36 m · Challenging

“The Greek sage Socrates, when he was but a boy minding his father's goats, used to lie on the grass under the myrtle trees; and, while the goats grazed around him, he loved to read over and over the story which Solon, the law-giver and poet, wrote down for the great-grandfather of Socrates, and which Solon had always meant to make into a poem, though he died without doing it.”

A collection of twenty myths and legends that revolve around vanishing or mysterious islands.

The Moon Pool A. Merritt · 1919 ★★★☆☆ 3.3 285 pages · ≈ 5 h 17 m · Challenging

"On the island of Ponape in the South Pacific, the cold light of a full moon washes over the crumbling ruins of an ancient, vanished civilization. Unleashed from the depths is the Dweller, a glittering, enigmatic force…