Wiedersehen mit Brideshead

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and...

"Wiedersehen mit Brideshead: Die heiligen und profanen Erinnerungen des Captain Charles Ryder" ist ein Roman von Evelyn Waugh, der erstmals 1945 veröffentlicht wurde. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte von Charles Ryder, einem jungen Mann...

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was born in London and educated at Oxford. He quickly established a reputation with such social satirical novels as DECLINE AND FALL, VILE BODIES and SCOOP. Waugh became a Catholic in 1930, and his later books...

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and...

The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade - whether promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties...

Times von Waugh, Evelyn

Brideshead Revisited von Waugh, Evelyn

William Boot, der beim Daily Beast eine Kolumne zum Thema Natur und Landleben hat, wird 1938 aufgrund einer Verwechslung als Kriegsberichterstatter in das afrikanische Krisengebiet Ishmaelia entsandt. Boot erweist sich entgegen allen...

Tod in Hollywood: Roman

'A whole Gothic world had come to grief . . .'Beautiful Lady Brenda Last lives at Hetton Abbey, a crumbling Gothic monstrosity that is her husband Tony's pride and joy. Bored and restless after seven years of marriage, she drifts into an...

"Brideshead Revisited" von Evelyn Waugh ist eine nostalgische Erinnerung an die vergangene Ära der englischen Aristokratie, erzählt durch die Augen des Protagonisten Charles Ryder. Als Student in Oxford freundet sich Charles mit...