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2 reviews
Humphrey Carpenter

Houghton Mifflin, 1992

Serious and Amusing
This is an admirable book, well written, balanced and well researched. After a slightly hesitant start, the scene shifts to Oxford in the early twenties; it comes across as a very dissolute place, with distinct homosexual undertones. The noticeable "public school" backdrop leaves you wondering why anyone should send their child to an English boarding school (at very great expense, incidentally). ...

Brideshead Revisited

1 review
Evelyn Waugh

CSA WORD, 2006

Brideshead Abridged
Anyone considering a purchase of this product should know that it is very heavily abridged. It's difficult to give a realistic assessment of how much has been lost, but to me it sounds as though about half of Waugh's writing has been cut out. Most of the dialogue is there, but the narratives have been omitted. Whole characters, such as Hooper and Charles Ryder's father, have been truncated, ...

Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)

1 review
Evelyn Waugh

Penguin Classics, 2000

Always Worth Revisiting
The purchase of Brideshead Revisited is one of sure investments in your library. You will revisit it very often because it is one of the books that keep you in their thrall forever. Actually, I have a copy in my desk in the office and pick it up to read a few pages when my students are late for meeting. This is a book which can be read in many ways - most of which open up a new perspective on ...

Brideshead Revisited (MTI) (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

2 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Everyman's Library, 2008

A book to be cherished again and again
This is a spectacular, beautifully written novel. I bought this hardcover edition because I wanted to read the introduction by Frank Kermode. It offered a lot of background information pertaining to the novel, as well as references to previous editions and a timeline of the author's life. The story itself is very intriguing. Containing all the elements of a tragic love story-forbidden love, a ...

Acts of Attention: Figure and Narrative in Postwar British Novels
Tamas Benyei

Peter Lang Publishing, 1999

Postwar British novels have rarely been read in the meticulous, theoretically informed way that seems to be reserved for the classics. The objective of these readings of five postwar British novels (Evelyn Waugh: 'Brideshead Revisited', John Fowles: 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', William Golding: 'Sea Trilogy', Jeanette Winterson: 'The Passion', Ian McEwan: 'The Innocent') is to turn to wellknown contemporary texts with exactly the kind of ...

Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 13, Chapter 3)

1 review

The Gale Group, 2002

unnecessary
Mostly just a plot summary and list of characters. A few essays describe topics that should be largely self evident to an adult reader. I was hoping for more explanations (footnotes) on Waugh's many culural, social and historical references to supplement my reading of the book.

Brideshead Revisited

97 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Penguin Putnam~trade, 1992

A Queer Theory Must!
As someone very interested in the field of Queer Theory, I was pleasantly surprised to pick up this book and discover such fascinating love relationships in the life of Charlie Ryder. Set between the two World Wars, Brideshead Revisited follows the life of Charlie Ryder and his dealings (and romances) with members of the Flyte family. Waugh has both a beautiful way with words and a scathing, ...

Brideshead Regained

9 reviews
Michael Johnston

Akanos, 2003

Sequels can succeed
I approached Brideshead Regained with some trepidation but within a few pages my fears were soon unfounded. This is a wonderful read. Michael Johnson has achieved the impossible in successfully writting a sequel to Brideshead Revisited. In Johnston's book we experience the ups and downs of life during the Second World War through the eyes of Charles Ryder as he works as a war artist. We meet ...