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Category Archives: Fiction
Brideshead 2008 Film Adaptation on BBC2
The Times has posted in its TV listings the following notice about the broadcast of the 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. This will take place today (Sa 27 Feb 2021) at 225 GMT: BBC2, 2.25pm The reaction to Julian … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, Television Programs
Tagged BBC2
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Washington’s Birthday Roundup
–Last week’s Sunday Telegraph reviews a new book by Simon Fenwick entitled The Crichel Boys. This is about a post-WWII literary salon established in a house that was formerly the rectory of Long Crichel, Dorset. This was purchased by Eddy … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Catholic Insight, Simon Fenwick, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, The Modernist Review, The Spectator, University of California
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Wilfred Thesiger Profiled in “The Article”
Biographer Jeffrey Meyers has written a profile of pre-eminent British travel writer Wilfred Thesiger. This is posted in the online literary journal The Article. Meyers begins by recalling his 1979 interview of Thesiger in the latter’s London apartment. He notes … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Newspapers, Remote People, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Jeffrey Meyers, The Article, Wilfred Thesiger
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Pre-Valentine Roundup
–The Spanish newspaper El Periodico announces the issuance of a Catalan translation of Brideshead Revisited; Sebastian and Charles burst into the kitchen, in love like penguins, to share in the bombshell news that Viena Edicions has just published in Catalan … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph, El Periodico, Irish Examiner, New Statesman, The Spectator
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Roundup: Brideshead to Bridgerton
–A new Netflix serial “Bridgerton” has been compared in several papers to Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited and its film and TV adaptations. Here an excerpt from the Bloomsberg News: … “Bridgerton” is a sly and sexy Netflix Inc. series set … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Newspapers, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Bloomberg News, Netflix, New Criterion, The Times, TheRoyalUK.com, Wall Street Journal
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Vile Bodies Artifact Posted on Etsy
A theatre programme from the 1932 London stage production of Vile Bodies was recently posted for sale on etsy.com. Here’s the description: This is a very rare survivor – and indeed so much so that I am unable to find … Continue reading
Unloved in LA
William Cash has written a feature length article in the Catholic Herald that provides some new insights into Evelyn Waugh’s 1947 trip to Hollywood. The trip combined an effort to agree film rights with MGM for Brideshead Revisited as well … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers, The Loved One
Tagged Catholic Herald, MGM Studios, William Cash
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MLK Weekend Roundup
—The Tablet has posted an excerpt from Waugh’s novel Helena in recognition of both the Christmas season and the recent publication of that novel as the latest addition (vol. 11) to the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Here’s the introduction … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Complete Works, Helena, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Clarissa Churchill, Copyright Law, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, The Oldie, The Tablet, William Carey University
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Sword of Honour Reviewed in Italy (More)
Luca Fumagalli has completed his review of Sword of Honour with two installments in subsequent postings on Radio Spada. See previous post for volume 1. The review and summary of second volume Officers and Gentlemen (Ufficiale e Gentiluomini in Italian) … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Officers and Gentlemen, Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Luca Fumagalli, Radio Spada, translations
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Another Brideshead Anniversary
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead Revisited in America in book format. A serialized version had been issued in four installments in November 1944-February 1945 in Town & Country magazine published in New York. The … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions
Tagged Book of the Month Club, Little Brown & Co
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