Ficciones vs The Power and the Glory: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Persecution, Social life and customs, Fiction
Ficciones
A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor. ---------- Contains: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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The Power and the Glory
One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during the early 1930’s. An unnamed Catholic priest, an alcoholic with a shameful past in search of either…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Ficciones highest: Ficciones 4.4 · The Power and the Glory 4.0.
- Ficciones has the widest readership — 83217 ratings behind its score.
- The Power and the Glory runs the darker storyline; Ficciones stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Ficciones | The Power and the Glory | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.4 (83217) | 4.0 (45420) |
| Hardcover | 4.3 (247) | 3.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (24) | 4.5 (12) |
Reception
| Ficciones | The Power and the Glory | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 83217 | 45420 |
| Editions | 78 | 130 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 128657 | 50553 |
| Reading it now | 7167 | 3632 |
| Written reviews | 6377 | 3640 |
| Wikipedia attention | 7568 | 8644 |
| Pages | 185 | 154 |