Main-travelled roads vs The Golly Sisters Go West: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: West, Westerns, Children's fiction, Fiction
Main-travelled roads
“IN the windless September dawn a voice went ringing clear and sweet, a man's voice, singing a cheap and common air.”
Raised on farms throughout the midwest, Hamlin Garland moved to Boston as a young man and became a writer. A visit with his family in the Dakota Territory resulted in a "depressing but eye-opening return to the places…
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The Golly Sisters Go West
May-May and Rose, the singing, dancing Golly sisters, travel west by covered wagon, entertaining people along the way.
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Golly Sisters Go West is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 4 for Main-travelled roads.
- Main-travelled roads has the widest readership — 380 ratings behind its score.
- Main-travelled roads reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 31 times.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Main-travelled roads | The Golly Sisters Go West | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (380) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.5 (2) | 3.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (5) | — |
Reception
| Main-travelled roads | The Golly Sisters Go West | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 380 | 2 |
| Editions | 100 | 10 |
| Citations | 31 | 1 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 658 | — |
| Reading it now | 50 | — |
| Written reviews | 58 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 197 | — |
| Pages | 258 | 64 |