In A Handful of Dust which I just finished rereading in the 1945 US edition, Jock and Tony visit a club in Soho called The Sixty-Four based on its address at...
I now see that the name of this club was apparently The Sixty-Four in both the US and British serialized version, which was entitled "A Flat in London" and...
D. J. Taylor, "Madresfield: The Real Brideshead, By Jane Mulvagh," The Independent, June 1: http://tinyurl.com/6g2le9 . Nicholas Shakespeare, "Madresfield, a...
It's The Sixty-four in my Little, Brown edition (U.S.), which gives a copyright date of 1934, indicating that it was renewed by Waugh in 1962. W ... edition,...
Thanks for checking. According to the LC listings the most recent edition that was purely US seems to be the Little Brown edition of 1977. There is an...
Another issue arising from the rather tortuous history of the writing and publication of HD is the fact that there are two endings- -one written for the...
Coincidentally, I'm just reading "Officers and Gentlemen" and noticed that Guy gets sent to a block of flats in St. James called "Marchmain House." Was that...
Not really. I think it's the same sort of link as Waugh made with the Old Hundredth. Marchmain House as such was pulled down in the 1920's but replaced by a...
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/books/752701/a-house-and-its-history.thtmlHere's a review of the Madresfield book from the Spectator. The reviewer...
John Crace's "digested read" in the Guardian today is of Brideshead: http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2284292,00.html . If this sort of thing is for...
It's a buyers market for EW residences. In addition to Combe Florey House in Somerset, Piers Court, in Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire (the house EW called...
In this week's Spectator magazine Alan Massie asks the question whether a novel can be too well written for its own good, taking as his starting point Anthony...
In "Officers and Gentlemen" Crouchback meets a young Scottish woman (from Mugg) who is pamphleteering on behalf of Hitler (who, presumably, will get the awful...
The Weekly Standard recently published an interesting piece on the new movie version of Brideshead Revisited that is premiering later this week . The article...
Here is a link to an artlcle by Sarah Lyall in today's NYTimes about the new BR movie. There is also a slide show of the actors in period costume. Much of...
Here's a link to the review of the new BR movie by NY Times critic A.O. Scott. In short, he didn't much like it but see for yourself. The review in the...
I just saw the new movie. It does make Julia the main focus but alas it alters her character so that the plot no longer makes sense. The first half of the...
... It would be surprising, on the other hand, if the filmmaker showed the final product to the copyright owners and ask for their specific permission to make...
The following excerpt from Jonathan Last's recent article in The Weekly Standard reviews the background of Waugh's dealings with Hollwood, and indicates...
Thanks for posting this. It's really a fairly thoughtful review. Some one should remind the Globe, however, that the earlier TV production of BR was made by...
In his memoir A Writer's People, V.S. Naipaul discusses those wirters who influenced him in one way or another. In one chapter, he focusses on Anthony Powell...
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? Jeff, I agree. A bit harsh. Missing the point, even. The great unmissable thing about Waugh's work isn't his plotting or?his themes or?his characterisation...
MR LOVEDAY'S LITTLE OUTING has kicked off at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Danny Danziger (of The Sunday Times) has already reviewed it... "Funny, scary,...
... I've tried to read some of Naipaul's novels and non fiction but never get beyond p. 20.? He is supposed to write well and?with a comic, satirical style but...
I wonder if this production followed the lead of BBC4 and used the text of the story as a script. The screenplay on that TV production was creditted solely...
Yes, the BBC4 version used the exact wording of the original story. This production has tried to dramatise the whole tale for the stage by splitting it up into...
