Il barone rampante vs The Gadfly: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Continental european fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Fiction
Il barone rampante
Il romanzo racconta le vicende di Cosimo di Rondò, vissuto nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo in piccolo paese della Liguria. Cosimo, per sfuggire ad un punizione, decide di salire su un albero e non scenderne mai più:…
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The Gadfly
The Gadfly was published in 1897, and its original publishers feared a hostile public reaction to its theme of revolution. Instead, it quickly became a classic of socialism, one of the very first politically aware…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate The Gadfly highest: The Gadfly 4.2 · Il barone rampante 3.9.
- The Gadfly has the widest readership — 13182 ratings behind its score.
- The Gadfly runs the darker storyline; Il barone rampante stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Il barone rampante | The Gadfly | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.2 (13182) |
| Hardcover | 4.1 (7) | 4.2 (12) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (9) | — |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (20) |
Reception
| Il barone rampante | The Gadfly | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 9 | 13182 |
| Editions | 50 | 89 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 10032 |
| Reading it now | — | 616 |
| Written reviews | — | 1090 |
| Wikipedia attention | 4573 | 2872 |
| Pages | 287 | 198 |