Emma Thompson will star in a movie version of Brideshead Revisited, it was announced. She will play Lady Marchmain, leader of the dysfunctional family at the centre of the period tale, while Michael ...
Arising from UK cinema, a few destinations enjoy an enviable reputation for their tourist footfall. Scotland's Glenfinnan Viaduct, forever enshrined as the site of that annual trip on the track to ...
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 ...
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 ...