Brideshead Revisited
British novelist, 1903–1966.
Brideshead Revisited is a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh.
On 5 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- First published
- 1945
- Length
- 326 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Class and society, Religion and faith
Is Brideshead Revisited worth reading?
5 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them The Big Read top 100 (BBC) and 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 80 | See the list |
| 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk, 2014) | Listed | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 75 | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 45 | See the list |
Best edition of Brideshead Revisited
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2000), 326 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2000)
- Pages
- 326
- ISBN
- 9780141182483
How critics and readers rate Brideshead Revisited
Readers rate it most highly: it earned 49% of the points available on readers' and booksellers' lists, against 17% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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