Brideshead revisited

Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead character Sebastian has been a constant companion and inspiration force for author Kate Scelsa, since she first read the book as young adult, and budding lesbian

The young businessman had fought for more than a year to keep his club open after it was billed ‘number one crime generator’ when locals complained, writes RICHARD KAY.

The dapper and prolific Jeremy Irons has a birthday coming up tomorrow, September 19, which seems a good time to give a rundown of his historical costume movie and TV hits. There are plenty to choo…

Brideshead Revisited by Waugh, Evelyn - ISBN 10: 0316926345 - ISBN 13: 9780316926348 - Back Bay Books - 1999 - Softcover

Gentlemen‘s Gram on Instagram: “⁣"Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see." - Edgar Degas⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Image from Brideshead Revisited directed by Julian…”

Brideshead Revisited (1981): Promo shot of Anthony Andrews (Sebastian Flyte).

Evelyn Waugh's beloved masterpiece, with an introduction by Paula Byrne 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 rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to…

Why does Brideshead Revisited have such a strong hold on our imagination? Evelyn Waugh's beautiful dialogue plays its part, argues Christopher Hitchens, but the chief source of the novel's power is its summoning of innocence lost on the fields of Flanders. Never mind that the new film version is a travesty: go back to the book