The Thing Around Your Neck vs Works of Elizabeth Gaskell: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: European, English, Literary Criticism
The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore Sun), with "prose as…
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Works of Elizabeth Gaskell
Features Elizabeth Gaskell's work. This work brings together her journalism, her shorter fiction, which was published in various collections during her lifetime, her early personal writing, including a diary written…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Thing Around Your Neck is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 10 for Works of Elizabeth Gaskell.
- The Thing Around Your Neck has the widest readership — 51688 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Thing Around Your Neck | Works of Elizabeth Gaskell | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (51688) | 4.2 (124) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (81) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (101) | — |
Reception
| The Thing Around Your Neck | Works of Elizabeth Gaskell | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 51688 | 124 |
| Editions | 24 | 11 |
| Want to read | 65496 | 294 |
| Reading it now | 3014 | 332 |
| Written reviews | 4799 | 6 |
| Wikipedia attention | 1376 | — |
| Pages | 224 | 562 |