Fables vs Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Translations from French, French language, Adaptations, Fiction
Fables
Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to…
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Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
5 film adaptations
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Fables is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 6 for Vingt mille lieues sous les mers.
- Vingt mille lieues sous les mers has the widest readership — 283880 ratings behind its score.
- Vingt mille lieues sous les mers has the bigger screen life — 5 adaptations on record.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Fables | Vingt mille lieues sous les mers | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.9 (283880) |
| Hardcover | 4.2 (10) | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (16) | — |
Reception
| Fables | Vingt mille lieues sous les mers | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 16 | 283880 |
| Editions | 345 | 384 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 5 |
| Want to read | — | 508 |
| Reading it now | — | 37 |
| Written reviews | — | 44 |
| Wikipedia attention | 9608 | 27916 |
| Pages | 88 | 338 |