BRIDESHEAD REVISITED—Evelyn Waugh—Little, Brown ($2.50). Early one morning in 1944, a flight of German dive bombers swooshed down on the headquarters of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia.

To paraphrase one of Brideshead Revisited’s most famous lines: we have been here before. In November, Little, Brown will release the 75th anniversary edition of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, set in the ...

With characteristic British self-deprecation, Evelyn Waugh wrote that he didn’t believe that more than two Americans would enjoy his 1945 novel “Brideshead Revisited.” That notion was scotched when ...

IN THE WEEKS after VE day, as British voters prepared to swap Winston Churchill for the Labour Party, the country’s fiction leapt into a radiant past. Published 75 years ago, at the end of May 1945, ...

This masterpiece had a cult status among both queers and conservatives in the previous century, but nowadays, this novel seems to have been consigned to oblivion. Yet, perhaps, it remains the most ...

With its blend of wistful nostalgia for and biting satire of bygone English nobility, Evelyn Waugh’s magnum opus, Brideshead Revisited, is among the most celebrated English novels — more despite, than ...

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 ...

The reinvented “Brideshead” – and third feature for Julian Jarrold (“Becoming Jane“) — is a handsome arthouse entertainment in the mold of Merchant Ivory, an interpretation that both honors its source ...