The Black Robe vs The Remains of the Day: Which Should You Read?

The Black Robe Wilkie Collins · 1881 ★★★★☆ 3.7 318 pages · ≈ 5 h 53 m · Demanding

“THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick.”

The Black Robe is an 1881 partially-epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book, which relates the misadventures of one "Lewis Romayne", is noted for its anti-Catholic lens.

The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 ★★★★☆ 4.3 257 pages · ≈ 4 h 46 m · Moderate

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is…