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Category Archives: Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Recommended as Cure for Alcoholics
Daily Mail books columnist Daisy Goodwin has written an article recommending books to help cure or prevent alcoholism. Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is recommended for its warning about the evil effects of the disease on those other than the drinker: …for a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Newspapers
Tagged alcoholism, Daily Mail, Daisy Goodwin
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Rex Mottram = Donald Trump?
Rex Mottram in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited has enjoyed something of a renaissance lately, as witnessed in several of our recent postings. George Weigel, writing in the National Review, may have hit upon the reason for this. He reminds people of Donald Trump. According … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Donald Trump, George Weigel, National Review, Rex Mottram
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Brideshead on Aussie Reading List
An Australian newsblog The New Daily has included Brideshead Revisited on a list of “20 books you should have read by now:” Wartime British writer Evelyn Waugh wrote arguably his most-celebrated novel about Charles Ryder, an undergraduate at Oxford who befriends the … Continue reading
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Tagged The New Daily
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Details Emerge of Brideshead Stage Production
The Daily Mail in a story based on an interview with Damian Cruden has announced details of the upcoming stage production of Brideshead Revisited opening at York’s Theatre Royal next month. Cruden, the play’s director, said that all the characters are wrapped … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Theater
Tagged Daily Mail, Damian Cruden, Theatre Royal York
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Brideshead Urged for Post Downton Depression
Press reports are appearing that recognize the need for something to replace the void now left by the termination of the Downton Abbey TV series. The Huffington Post in its Off the Shelf column contains an article by Kerry Fiallo recommending a dose … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Downton Abbey, The Huffington Post, Toronto Star
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Arcadian Doubts
The latest issue of the magazine of Oriel College, Oxford (The Poor Print) has an article that opens with a passage from Waugh’s first novel, Decline and Fall: ‘You see, it wasn’t the ordinary sort of Doubt about Cain’s wife … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford
Tagged Nicholas Poussin, Oriel College, Sydney Carter, The Poor Print
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Barchester Revisited
Novelist and critic Philip Hensher in today’s Daily Telegraph previews a new TV series adapted by Julian Fellowes based on a novel by Anthony Trollope. This is Doctor Thorne, the third novel in the Barchester Chronicles, which begins a three-part broadcast … Continue reading
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Tagged Doctor Thorne, ITV, Julian Fellowes, Philip Hensher, social class indicators
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Brideshead and Rhodes Must Fall
Timothy Garton Ash, Profesor of European Studies at Oxford and author of several books, mostly about Eastern Europe, has brought Brideshead Revisited into the debate about removing a statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College. The demand for removal was … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Guardian, Oriel College, Rhodes Must Fall, Timothy Garton Ash
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Hooper, Rex Mottram and Modern Education
Author and journalist Joseph Pearce has published an essay about the shortcomings of modern education on The Imaginative Conservative weblog. This is a follow up to an earlier posting on G.K. Chesterton’s views relating to the same subject in which the importance of … Continue reading
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Tagged education, Joseph Pearce, The Imaginative Conservative
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Brideshead First Exceeds Estimate
The first edition of Brideshead Revisited inscribed by Waugh to Deborah Devonshire (nee Mitford) and her husband Andrew sold today at auction for £52,500 ($78,400). According to one report, this was more than double the estimate. The identity of the … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions
Tagged Deborah Devonshire Estate
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