Love of Life and Other Stories vs Selected Stories of Bret Harte: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Westerns, Social life and customs, Fiction
Love of Life and Other Stories
“THEY limped painfully down the bank, and once the foremost of the two men staggered among the rough-strewn rocks.”
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Jack, an Alaska gold rush-era miner, is abandoned by his partner and left to make his way through the wilderness alone. Starving and injured, he struggles physically and spiritually to come to grips with what is of true…
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
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The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood, with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of cultured parents;…
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The verdict
- Readers rate Love of Life and Other Stories highest: Love of Life and Other Stories 4.1 · Selected Stories of Bret Harte 3.8.
- Love of Life and Other Stories is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Selected Stories of Bret Harte.
- Love of Life and Other Stories has the widest readership — 2644 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Love of Life and Other Stories | Selected Stories of Bret Harte | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (2644) | 3.7 (109) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (19) | 4.5 (7) |
Reception
| Love of Life and Other Stories | Selected Stories of Bret Harte | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 2644 | 109 |
| Editions | 44 | 9 |
| Want to read | — | 145 |
| Reading it now | — | 59 |
| Written reviews | — | 8 |
| Pages | 134 | 306 |
Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Love of Life and Other Stories or Selected Stories of Bret Harte?
Love of Life and Other Stories has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Love of Life and Other Stories 4.1/5, Selected Stories of Bret Harte 3.8/5).
Which is shorter to read: Love of Life and Other Stories or Selected Stories of Bret Harte?
Love of Life and Other Stories is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Love of Life and Other Stories (134 pages, ≈ 2 h 29 m); Selected Stories of Bret Harte (306 pages, ≈ 5 h 40 m).
Which is harder to read: Love of Life and Other Stories or Selected Stories of Bret Harte?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Love of Life and Other Stories: Challenging; Selected Stories of Bret Harte: Challenging.