Drums Under the Windows vs The Orton Diaries: Which Should You Read?

Drums Under the Windows Sean O'Casey · 1945 ★★★★☆ 3.8 430 pages · ≈ 7 h 58 m · Challenging

'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.' Sean O'Casey, 1948 Sean O'Casey's six-part…

The Orton Diaries John Lahr · 1986 ★★★★☆ 3.9 304 pages · ≈ 5 h 38 m · Moderate

Fron December 1966 to his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to be one of the most candid and unfettered accounts of that remarkable era. They chronicle his life from his literary…