A Collection of Ballads vs Cabbages and Kings: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Scots Ballads, English Folk songs, English Ballads
A Collection of Ballads
This is a song book. When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood,…
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Cabbages and Kings
“CORALLO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem.”
They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile republic, died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Cabbages and Kings highest: Cabbages and Kings 3.9 · A Collection of Ballads 3.6.
- Cabbages and Kings has the widest readership — 1559 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| A Collection of Ballads | Cabbages and Kings | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.2 (10) | 3.9 (1559) |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (1) | 3.4 (6) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (26) |
Reception
| A Collection of Ballads | Cabbages and Kings | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 10 | 1559 |
| Editions | 47 | 63 |
| Citations | — | 18 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 54 | 1625 |
| Reading it now | 11 | 265 |
| Written reviews | — | 128 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 1264 |
| Pages | 225 | 319 |