Blogs about: Evelyn Waugh
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Unconditional Surrender - post IV
For a moment it feels as if this book should have been called The Death Wish because as a theme it is one of the strongest throughout. But of course the title refers not just to what happened to the G… more »
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Against Beach Reading
ohkrapp wrote 3 days ago: People are self-conscious about what they read. Not everyone, of course, as you might have noticed … more »
Required Viewing | ‘Brideshead Revisited'
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Armand Limnander wrote 1 week ago: Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte exude aristocratic languor in “Brideshead Revisited. … more »
brideshead
toddhosfelt wrote 1 month ago: i watched the mini-series when i was 21 and was much influenced. oxford. the clothes. th … more »
A Handful Of Dust
nrsl wrote 1 month ago: … I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behin … more »
Brideshead Revisited: The Garden Breakdown
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Fr. J. wrote 2 months ago: Probably the most powerful scene in BR, Julia suffers a temendous prick of conscience which eventua … more »
Brideshead Revisited
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Kate wrote 2 months ago: Something peculiar happened down at the compound where they edit the movie trailers: the soundtrack … more »
Great Crested Grebe
mrchips wrote 2 months ago: Great Crested Grebe Originally uploaded by Mr_Chips “A major in Wales challenged him to pro … more »
New DVDs: Monday 19th May 2008
cinemascream wrote 2 months ago: This weeks biggest release and possibly the one of the weakest is Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: T … more »
Evelyn Waugh
R.A.D. Stainforth wrote 2 months ago: I find Waugh’s reputation a bit mystifying. He seems to embody several aspects of English life tha … more »
bookshop
grapes2dot0 wrote 2 months ago: Stefan Zweig Image via Wikipedia There’s nothing like a bookshop, I always say, for giving you th … more »
Vile Bodies - post II
quicke wrote 2 months ago: “…Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Wild West parties, Russian p … more »
Brideshead Revisited, Revisited
mrlauer wrote 2 months ago: The trailer for the new film of Brideshead Revisited does not, I fear, fill me with hope. It a … more »
Officers and Gentlemen - post III
quicke wrote 2 months ago: Waugh is expert at describing the confusion, fear and fatigue that settles on soldiers as they actua … more »
The Mu-Meson Archives
keepingtim3 wrote 2 months ago: Tony Richardson’s The Loved One (1965) The Mu-Meson Archives play host to another month of … more »
Mining the book racks
nathanknapp wrote 3 months ago: So on my trip into town today I ended up going into Books and Such, a local used bookstore that spec … more »
Doggerel Friday: Elegy for Sir Francis Hinsley
matt wrote 3 months ago: They told me, Francis Hinsley, they told me you were hung With red protruding eye-balls and black p … more »
The land where the hippy trail reaches a historic impasse
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asianwindow wrote 4 months ago: Adventurous travellers have found many things in Goa. Innocent escape was never one of them. Ian Jac … more »
Vile Bodies Graffiti
J.C. wrote 4 months ago: Vile Bodies Graffiti (2), originally uploaded by kristensens. I took this photograph, sem … more »
Lunchtime read: Helena
quicke wrote 4 months ago: Helena seems to be settling for a quiet life but her son arrives with wife and his own child in tow … more »
