![]() In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. Publishers WeeklyĮvelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. Fervent Anglophiles will be thrilled by this excellent rendition of a favorite Irons's reading saves this dinosaur from being suffocated by its own weight. ![]() Irons's portrayal of Ryder catapulted Irons to stardom, and in this superb reading his subtle, complete characterizations highlight Waugh's ear for the aristocratic mores of the time. Although Waugh was considered by many to be more successful as a comic than as a wistful commentator on human relationships and faith, this novel was made famous by a 1981 BBC TV dramatization. Ryder portrays a family divided by an uncertain investment in Roman Catholicism and by their confusion over where the elite fit in the modern world. Exhausted by the war, he takes refuge in recalling his time spent with the heirs to the estate before the war-years spent enthralled by the beautiful but dissolute Sebastian and later in a more conventional relationship with Sebastian's sister Julia. ![]() ![]() Charles Ryder finds himself stationed at Brideshead, the family seat of Lord and Lady Marchmain. In this classic tale of British life between the World Wars, Waugh parts company with the satire of his earlier works to examine affairs of the heart. ![]()
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