Brideshead Revisited vs I Capture the Castle: 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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I Capture the Castle
“I WRITE THIS sitting in the kitchen sink.”
Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a former bestselling novelist now suffering from a chronic case of writer's…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- I Capture the Castle has the widest readership — 12656 ratings behind its score.
- I Capture the Castle runs the darker storyline; Brideshead Revisited stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Brideshead Revisited | I Capture the Castle | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (9496) | 4.0 (12656) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (152) | 3.8 (147) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (2) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (173) | 4.5 (145) |
Reception
| Brideshead Revisited | I Capture the Castle | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 9496 | 12656 |
| Editions | 88 | 78 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 179465 | 141163 |
| Reading it now | — | 12 |
| Written reviews | 9496 | 12656 |
| Wikipedia attention | 5528 | 4127 |
| Pages | 327 | 368 |