Belinda vs No Roses for Harry!: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Belinda
Maria Edgeworth won the admiration of her contemporaries Jane Austen and Walter Scott as well as later writers such as Thackeray and Turgenev. In Belinda (1801) she tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once…
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No Roses for Harry!
“Harry was a white dog with black spots.”
Harry the dog finds a graceful way to dispose of his new sweater with roses on it.
The verdict
- Readers rate No Roses for Harry! highest: No Roses for Harry! 4.3 · Belinda 3.6.
- No Roses for Harry! is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 8 for Belinda.
- No Roses for Harry! has the widest readership — 9661 ratings behind its score.
- No Roses for Harry! reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 9 times.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Belinda | No Roses for Harry! | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.3 (9661) |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (6) | 4.1 (8) |
Reception
| Belinda | No Roses for Harry! | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 6 | 9661 |
| Editions | 20 | 15 |
| Citations | 4 | 9 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 749 | 329 |
| Pages | 483 | 32 |