The Great Shadow vs Uncle Bernac: Which Should You Read?

The Great Shadow Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 ★★★★☆ 3.8 134 pages · ≈ 2 h 29 m · Challenging

“It is strange to me, Jock Calder of West Inch, to feel that though now, in the very centre of the nineteenth century, I am but five-and-fifty years of age, and though it is only once in a week perhaps that my wife can pluck out a little grey bristle from over my ear, yet I have lived in a time when the thoughts and the ways of men were as different as though it were another planet from this.”

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Uncle Bernac Arthur Conan Doyle · 1897 ★★★★☆ 4.0 140 pages · ≈ 2 h 36 m · Challenging

“I dare say that I had already read my uncle's letter a hundred times, and I am sure that I knew it by heart.”

This is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dramatic tale of historical fiction set during the Napoleonic wars.