A Handful of Dust vs Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Brazil, Aristocracy, Fiction
A Handful of Dust
Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. She sets herself up in a London flat and pursues…
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Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas é um romance escrito por Machado de Assis, desenvolvido em princípio como folhetim, de março a dezembro de 1880, na Revista Brasileira, para, no ano seguinte, ser publicado como livro,…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas highest: Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas 4.3 · A Handful of Dust 3.7.
- Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas has the widest readership — 40899 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| A Handful of Dust | Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.3 (40899) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (46) | 3.7 (5) |
| Apple Books | 3.5 (21) | 4.5 (80) |
Reception
| A Handful of Dust | Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 46 | 40899 |
| Editions | 83 | 149 |
| Citations | 53 | — |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 49056 |
| Reading it now | — | 3438 |
| Written reviews | — | 3378 |
| Wikipedia attention | 3550 | — |
| Pages | 232 | 207 |