The Brideshead Generation

Author : Humphrey Carpenter
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571309283
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brideshead Generation written by Humphrey Carpenter and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[ The Brideshead Generation] has both style and substance, and is above all an enjoyable companion. It has a wildly amusing cast, here controlled by a skilful director.' Evening Standard 'Jovial and entertaining, full of the sort of stories that your friends will tell you if you don't read it before them.' Independent 'Carpenter has read widely and has collected an enormous fund of entertaining stories and facts.' Sunday Telegraph 'Hauntingly sad and wonderfully funny and by far the best thing Humphrey Carpenter has done.' Fiona MacCarthy, The Times

Author : Humphrey Carpenter
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780395597699
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brideshead Generation written by Humphrey Carpenter and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Evelyn Waugh's circle of friends and colleagues, and describes their influence on his work.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667623680
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000745547X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (TEXT ONLY) written by Paula Byrne and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England’s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, ‘Brideshead Revisited’.

Author : Philip Eade
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0805097619
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evelyn Waugh written by Philip Eade and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES Fifty years after Evelyn Waugh’s death, here is a completely fresh view of one of the most gifted -- and fascinating -- writers of our time, the enigmatic author of Brideshead Revisited. Graham Greene hailed Waugh as ‘the greatest novelist of my generation’, and in recent years his reputation has only grown. Now Philip Eade has delivered an authoritative and hugely entertaining biography that is full of new material, much of it sensational. Eade builds upon the existing Waugh lore with access to a remarkable array of unpublished sources provided by Waugh’s grandson, including passionate love letters to Baby Jungman – the Holy Grail of Waugh research - a revealing memoir by Waugh’s first wife Evelyn Gardner (“Shevelyn”), and an equally significant autobiography by Waugh’s commanding officer in World War II. Eade’s gripping narrative illuminates Waugh’s strained relationship with his sentimental father and blatantly favoured elder brother; his love affairs with male classmates at Oxford and female bright young things thereafter; his disastrous first marriage and subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism; his insane wartime bravery; his drug-induced madness; his singular approach to marriage and fatherhood; his complex relationship with the aristocracy; the astonishing power of his wit; and the love, fear, and loathing that he variously inspired in others. One of Eade’s aims is ‘to re-examine some of the distortions and misconceptions that have come to surround this famously complex and much mythologized character’.‘This might look like code for a plan to whitewash the overly blackwashed Waugh,’ comments veteran Waugh scholar Professor Donat Gallagher; ‘but readers fixated on atrocities will not be disappointed . . . I have been researching and writing about Waugh since 1963 and Eade time and again surprised and delighted me.’ Waugh was famously difficult and Eade brilliantly captures the myriad facets of his character even as he casts new light on the novels that have dazzled generations of readers.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667623761
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PUT OUT MORE FLAGS written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put Out More Flags is set during the first year of the war and follows the wartime activities of characters introduced in Waugh’s earlier satirical novels Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, and Black Mischief.

The dormant conflict is reflected in the activity of the novel’s main characters. Earnest would-be soldier Alistair Trumpington finds himself engaged in incomprehensible manoeuvres instead of real combat, while Waugh’s recurring ne’er-do-well Basil Seal, finds ample opportunity for amusing himself in the name of the war effort.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brideshead Revisited written by Evelyn Waugh and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war. In so doing, it provides a study of the conflict between the demands of religion and of the flesh.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1667623796
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VILE BODIES written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”

Author : Jane Mulvagh
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409009440
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madresfield written by Jane Mulvagh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned and lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book, and, unusually, remains in the family's hands to this day. Inside, it is a very private, unmistakably English, manor house; a lived-in family home where the bejewelled sits next to the threadbare. The house and the family were the real inspiration for Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh was a regular visitor, and based his story of the doomed Marchmain family on the Lygons. Never before open to the public, the doors of Madresfield have now swung open to allow Jane Mulvagh to explore its treasures and secrets. And so the rich, dramatic history of one landed family unfolds in parallel with the history of England itself over a millennium, from the Lygon who conspired to overthrow Queen Mary in the Dudley plot; through the tale of the disputed legacy that inspired Dickens' Bleak House; to the secret love behind Elgar's Enigma Variations; and the story of the scandal of Lord Beauchamp, the disgraced 7th Earl.

Author : Stuart Jeffries
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007291817
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs Slocombe's Pussy written by Stuart Jeffries and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tribute to teleheaven, Jeffries explores the way our lives have been coloured by looking at the world through the cathode ray tube, and how the addiction to a little flickering box in the corner has shaped our lives since the late 1950s.