Anne of Avonlea vs Ragged Dick: Which Should You Read?
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Anne of Avonlea
“A TALL, SLIM girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.”
The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series.Now Anne is half past sixteen and she's ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She's as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to…
1 film adaptation
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Ragged Dick
"Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evidences of favor that…
The verdict
- Readers rate Anne of Avonlea highest: Anne of Avonlea 4.2 · Ragged Dick 3.3.
- Anne of Avonlea has the widest readership — 234768 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Anne of Avonlea | Ragged Dick | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (234768) | 3.3 (3055) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (231) | 2.5 (4) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (8) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1139) | 5.0 (8) |
Reception
| Anne of Avonlea | Ragged Dick | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 234768 | 3055 |
| Editions | 813 | 201 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 69510 | 1584 |
| Reading it now | 8340 | 161 |
| Written reviews | 13019 | 408 |
| Wikipedia attention | 6009 | 1186 |
| Pages | 244 | 138 |