Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisted

Film Tie-in. UK 2008, 324 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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At the end of World War II, Captain Charles Ryder and his troops, looking for a billet, have just arrived at Brideshead, the now-dilapidated family castle belonging to Lord Marchmain, a place where Charles Ryder stayed for an extended period just after World War I, the home of his best friend from Oxford, the outrageous and obviously gay Lord Sebastian ... Weiterlesen

Alexander Waugh: Fathers and Sons

USA 2008, 473 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has it. In this most unusual biographical memoir, Alexander Waugh exposes the fraught dynamics of love and strife that have produced a succession of successful authors. The first, Arthur, a hopeless Victorian, broke the family tradition of medicine when he won a prize for poetry in 1888. His ... Weiterlesen

Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster: Brian Howard - Portrait of a Failure

USA 2007, 398 pp., brochure, € 0.00
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A paradox at every turn, he was a son of American expatriates at Eton, where he produced »The Eton Candle« and met Edith Sitwell, who encouraged him as a poet. At Oxford he was the leading light of the most extravagant social set and an aesthete who hunted. In the 20s he was the impresario of the wildest parties and ... Weiterlesen
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Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies

UK 2003, 224 pp., pb, € 14.95
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An impoverished novelist clinging to the fringes of high society, Adam Fenwick-Symes takes on the job of gossip columnist for the »Daily Excess« so he can afford to marry his aristocratic fiancée, Nina Blount. Adam is soon thrown headlong into the frantic, jazz-fevered whirl of endless costume parties, treasure hunts, sports-car races and other hedonistic pursuits of the Bright Young ... Weiterlesen

Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Charles Sturridge (R): Wiedersehen mit Brideshead - Brideshead Revisited

UK 1981, OF, dt.SF, dt.UT, 7 DVDs, 647 min., € 14.99
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TV-Verfilmung des Gesellschaftsromans von Evelyn Waugh mit Jeremy Irons in der Hauptrolle. Der britische Offizier Charles Ryder wird während des 2. Weltkriegs mit seiner Kompanie auf Schloss Brideshead verlegt. Dort hat Ryder viel Zeit während seiner Studienjahre verbracht. Nun lässt er sein halbes Leben Revue passieren. In seiner Studienzeit in Oxford war er mit Lord Sebastian Flyte, den jüngsten und ... Weiterlesen