I read this book in 1980 and loved it. I was eager to reread it. However, I was disappointed. I don't remember the book being so boring in parts. As before, I loved the first part of the book where Charles and Sebastian meet and become friends. Sebastian carries around a stuff animal and seems ...
An absorbing and sumptuous eulogy for the end of the golden age of the British aristocracy. Beautifully written and with so much to enjoy: faith and - in particular - Catholicism, duty, love, desire, grandeur, decay, memory, and tragedy. At its heart there is a beautiful and enchanting story. The va...
An absorbing and sumptuous eulogy for the end of the golden age of the British aristocracy. Beautifully written and with so much to enjoy: faith and - in particular - Catholicism, duty, love, desire, grandeur, decay, memory, and tragedy. At its heart there is a beautiful and enchanting story. The ...
It’s difficult to review a book like this. The themes are huge and there’s so much packed into a mere 350 pages. The story is told in flashback by Charles Ryder, an army officer who comes across the Brideshead estate while moving from one camp to another. He knows it well, having been close to the M...
It’s difficult to review a book like this. The themes are huge and there’s so much packed into a mere 350 pages. The story is told in flashback by Charles Ryder, an army officer who comes across the Brideshead estate while moving from one camp to another. He knows it well, having been close to the M...
hmmm another recipient-male-gay masterpiece, stylistically unmatchable. on one hand a 'Downton Abbey' period piece, where Waugh goes terribly wrong, (Waugh was a member of the mincing upper class, writing biting satirical works until this point; this cri de coeur is in the upper-class sense, his dis...
Like Waugh, himself, I think it wasn't as good, upon second reading. Not terrible, mind you, but more florid and religiously apologetic than I recalled.
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