The Edible Woman vs Three Lives: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Women in fiction, Women, American literature, Fiction
The Edible Woman
A determined young lady who losses her focus along the line while trying to balance her life and relationship
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Three Lives
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Edible Woman highest: The Edible Woman 3.6 · Three Lives 3.1.
- Three Lives has the widest readership — 4678 ratings behind its score.
- The Edible Woman reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 77 times.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Edible Woman | Three Lives | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.1 (4678) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (55) | 3.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (2) | — |
| Apple Books | — | 2.0 (8) |
Reception
| The Edible Woman | Three Lives | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 55 | 4678 |
| Editions | 67 | 149 |
| Citations | 77 | 2 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 7460 |
| Reading it now | — | 366 |
| Written reviews | — | 540 |
| Wikipedia attention | 2502 | 779 |
| Pages | 359 | 299 |