Debits and credits vs The Mayor of Casterbridge: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: British and irish fiction, Short Stories
Debits and credits
Debits and Credits, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/debits/ .
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Like many of Hardy’s novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge is set in the fictional county of Wessex in the mid 1800s. It begins with Michael Henchard, a young hay-trusser, drunk on rum, auctioning off his wife and baby…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate The Mayor of Casterbridge highest: The Mayor of Casterbridge 3.9 · Debits and credits 3.6.
- The Mayor of Casterbridge has the widest readership — 67377 ratings behind its score.
- The Mayor of Casterbridge runs the darker storyline; Debits and credits stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Debits and credits | The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.5 (50) | 3.9 (67377) |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (1) | 3.6 (88) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (309) |
Reception
| Debits and credits | The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 50 | 67377 |
| Editions | 35 | 676 |
| Citations | — | 4 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 45440 |
| Reading it now | — | 1933 |
| Written reviews | — | 3729 |
| Wikipedia attention | 5556 | 5589 |
| Pages | 416 | — |