Brideshead Revisited
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Biographies of the Year...I met one of their ringleaders, the last Earl Beauchamp, in his library at Madresfield. He asked what I was reading at the moment and I said Brideshead Revisited. He didn't exactly swallow his pipe, but there was an "atmosphere". He looked... In this article: William Golding, Evelyn Waugh, Somerset Maugham, Brideshead Revisited, Arthur Ransome, Paul Dirac, and Charlie Chaplin |
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Entertainment Weekly | November 15, 2009
20 classic TV miniseries
...to become emperor of Rome may have marked the peak of the golden era of Masterpiece Theatre (from 1971's Upstairs Downstairs to 1981's Brideshead Revisited). It also put the lie to the notion that British drama was stuffy and dull not...
In this article: Livia, I, Claudius, Robert Graves, AMC, The Prisoner, The Sopranos, and BBC
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Guardian | November 13, 2009
Rowan's vision for development Mark Vernon
...vision, and more challenging still, would be a shift the balance of power in development relationships. I was reminded of a moment in Brideshead Revisited when Cordelia, the younger daughter of the Marchmain family, comments that "you send...
In this article: Canterbury, Benedict XVI, and UK
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | November 03, 2009
Interview: Ben Whishaw - Star quality
...in top form again. But the film came towards the end of a string of projects, including the film version of Brideshead Revisited (in which he played Sebastian Flyte) and the harrowing TV prison drama, Criminal Justice, which left him...
In this article: Ben Whishaw, John Keats, Bright Star, Hamlet, Royal Court Theatre, Sebastian Flyte, Primo Levi, and Trevor Nunn
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New Kerala | November 03, 2009
'From Blighty With Love' Fest to start Feb 26
...development of the UK Film Council, said in a statement. Some of the movies that will be screened at the event include "Easy Virtue", "Brideshead Revisited", "Man On Wire" and "In the Loop", etc apart from those of renowned filmmakers...
In this article: Mumbai, UK, Big Cinemas, UK Trade And Investment, Easy Virtue, Skype, Man on Wire, and Michael Winterbottom
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | October 26, 2009
Glorious 39, London Film Festiva
...direction Stephen Poliakoff's Glorious 39 (a British premiere at the London Film Festival) is a far more subversive film than its Brideshead Revisited-style patina of nostalgia first suggests. In spite of all the lovingly filmed footage...
In this article: Romola Garai, Stephen Poliakoff, Second World War, Ingrid Bergman, Jeremy Northam, Enigma, and England
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Blogcritics | October 25, 2009
Book Review: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
...play, Waiting for Godot, Pozzo remarks, "They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. " Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh represents one of those lights gleaming in the darkness between...
In this article: Evelyn Waugh, Charles Ryder, Sebastian Flyte, First World War, World War II, and Waiting for Godot
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The Japan Times: All Stories | October 22, 2009
This obscure liqueur may save your soul
...a kaleidoscopic drink, sweet yet fiery, floral, minty and distinctly aniseedy; it is, said the stuttering Anthony Blanche in Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited," like swallowing a sp-spectrum. A green 110-proof Chartreuse and a yellow...
In this article: Chartreuse, Carthusian, France, Single Ladies, Stuttering, Herb, and Betamax
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BBC News | October 22, 2009
Pinewood's GBP200m plans rejected
...site, which has been empty for several years. Pinewood became famous in the 1950s and 1960s for the Bond and Carry On films. Recent films coming from the studio include Bond's Quantum of Solace, Brideshead Revisited and the Dark Knight.
In this article: Pinewood Studios, Quantum of Solace, UK, Buckinghamshire, Paris, and New York
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Wales Online | October 15, 2009
Hollywood goes to Potts for latest big film idea
...Justin Zackham about the proposed project, which has recently signed up Julian Jarrold, the man behind the recent big screen Brideshead Revisited re-make, to helm it. "In many ways, I would love for it to be a comedy, because my wife...
In this article: Hollywood, One Chance, Britain's Got Talent, Business partner, God, The Hollywood Reporter, and YouTube
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Times Online | August 21, 2009
Brideshead was all about the fashion
Navigation - link to other main sections from here Brideshead was all about the fashion Why the glamour of Brideshead will never stale - for me at least Paula Byrne's gripping new account of Evelyn Waugh's life, Mad World, has been...
In this article: Brideshead, Evelyn Waugh, Cecil Beaton, Silver, Harold Acton, Charles Sturridge, Southampton, and Brian Howard
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Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. Waugh wrote that the novel "deals with what is theologically termed 'the operation of Grace', that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself". This is achieved by an examination of the Catholic aristocratic Marchmain family, as seen by the narrator, Charles Ryder.
Time Magazine included Brideshead Revisited in its list of "All-time 100 Novels". In various letters, Waugh himself refers to the novel a number of times as his magnum opus; however, in 1950 he wrote to Graham Greene saying "I re-read Brideshead Revisited and was appalled." In Waugh's preface to the 1959 revised edition of Brideshead the author explains the circumstances in which the novel was written, in the six months between December 1943 and June 1944 following a minor parachute accident. He is mildly disparaging of the novel, saying; "It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster — the period of soya beans and Basic English — and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful."
Brideshead Revisited was brought to the screen in 1981 in the ITV drama serialisation, produced by Granada Television. A film adaptation of the book was released in July 2008.
- Name:
- Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- Country of Origin:
- United Kingdom
- Written By:
- Evelyn Waugh
- Published By:
- Chapman and Hall
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardcover)
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- 1945
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