![]() ![]() The book’s romanticism and its richness of style touched exactly the right nerve in readers just emerging from the perils and privations of wartime and heading into a postwar era of uncertainty and (in Great Britain) austerity. ![]() ![]() Why?īefore its publication, Waugh was best known for a series of biting satires puncturing the empty-headed pretensions of a decadent British upper class between the two world wars.They included such highly readable–and still read–volumes as Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, and Scoop.īrideshead Revisited marked a new turn in the author’s career. The much praised 1981 TV miniseries based on it certainly helped, yet the novel itself still stands firmly on its own, occupying a special place in the affections of countless readers. Whatever else might be said of it-and a great deal has been said-three-quarters of a century later this book by Evelyn Waugh remains easily the most popular Catholic-themed work of fiction in the English language.Īfter all these years it is interesting to reflect on what accounts for the extraordinary success Brideshead has enjoyed from the start. ![]() In the late spring of 1945, as World War II was drawing toward a close, a novel called Brideshead Revisited made its appearance in Britain its first U.S. ![]()
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