One fan said: "I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that this is probably the finest adaptation of a novel put to film." ...

Making notes in 1949 for a review of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell wrote that “Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can be…while holding untenable opinions.” Which is a nice ...

In the spring of 1943, disillusioned Army captain Charles Ryder stumbles upon Brideshead, once home to the Marchmain family, and recalls how he visited it for the first time twenty years ago. While ...

Brideshead Revisited has become one of the inescapable cultural objects of our — comparatively — recent times. Many otherwise sober critics and literary scholars regard the novel as Evelyn Waugh’s ...

Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls ...