Brideshead Revisited vs The Go-Between: Which Should You Read?

Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh · 1945 ★★★★☆ 4.0 327 pages · ≈ 6 h 03 m · Challenging

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…

The Go-Between L. P. Hartley · 1953 ★★★★☆ 4.0 296 pages · ≈ 5 h 29 m · Moderate

“THE 8TH of July was a Sunday, and on the following Monday I left West Hatch, the village where we lived near Salisbury, for Brandham Hall.”

Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the turn of the century when the narrator was a young boy. The boy spends the summer in question as a guest at a country estate where he…