Maggie, a girl of the streets vs The Financier: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Classics, Fiction
Maggie, a girl of the streets
This edition of Maggie reprints Crane's original, unexpurgated 1893 text and includes many additional contemporary documents chosen to help reconstruct the historical, cultural, and social milieu of…
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The Financier
“The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more.”
The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. Dreiser started writing his manuscript in 1911, and the following year published the first part of his lengthy work as…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Financier highest: The Financier 4.3 · Maggie, a girl of the streets 3.3.
- Maggie, a girl of the streets is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 9 for The Financier.
- Maggie, a girl of the streets has the widest readership — 9720 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Maggie, a girl of the streets | The Financier | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.3 (9720) | 4.3 (8308) |
| Hardcover | 4.4 (5) | 4.3 (19) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 3.5 (171) | 4.5 (15) |
Reception
| Maggie, a girl of the streets | The Financier | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 9720 | 8308 |
| Editions | 260 | 352 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 107 | 8266 |
| Reading it now | — | 1090 |
| Written reviews | 18 | 368 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 926 |
| Pages | 68 | 523 |