Brideshead Revisited vs Death Comes for the Archbishop: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
Brideshead Revisited
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the…
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
“One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico.”
In 1851 French Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are dispatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows--…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Death Comes for the Archbishop has the widest readership — 45314 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Brideshead Revisited | Death Comes for the Archbishop | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (9496) | 4.0 (45314) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (152) | 4.1 (53) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (2) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (173) | 4.0 (116) |
Reception
| Brideshead Revisited | Death Comes for the Archbishop | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 9496 | 45314 |
| Editions | 88 | 342 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 179465 | 57384 |
| Reading it now | — | 3386 |
| Written reviews | 9496 | 5077 |
| Wikipedia attention | 5528 | 5767 |
| Pages | 327 | 319 |