Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. The chronicle of a household, a family, and a journey of religious faith—an elegy for a vanishing world—Waugh's masterwork was a tribute and testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. The Lygons of Madresfield were every bit as glamorous, eccentric, and fascinating as thei...(展开全部)

A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, 'Brideshead Revisited'. Evelyn Waugh was already famous when 'Brideshead Revisited' was published in 1945. Written at the ...(展开全部)

A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, "Brideshead Revisited". Evelyn Waugh was already famous when "Brideshead Revisited" was published in 1945. Written at the ...(展开全部)

Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war, the novel was, he admitted, of no "immediate propaganda value." Instead, it was the story of a household, a family and a journey of religious faith—an elegy for a vanishing world and a testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. The Lyg...(展开全部)

The definitive biogrpahy on Evelyn Waugh.

One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three, the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was right-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist. Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals, at the heart of their lives and writing, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell were e...(展开全部)

One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three, the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was right-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist. Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals, at the heart of their lives and writing, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell were e...(展开全部)

刘建伟，北京航空航天大学电子信息工程学院教授，博士生导师，党委书记，中国密码学会理事。出版专著和教材5部，发表论文100余篇，获授权发明专利15项。主持国家“973计划”、“863计划”、国家自然科学基金等项目20余项，以及多个国家级奖项。 王琼，现任空军某部副译审。1988年毕业于山东大学外文系英国语言文学专业，获文学学士学位。同年入伍，长期从事外语教学和翻译工作，曾获军队院校外语教学基本功竞赛一等奖和空军优秀翻译奖，荣立三等功一次。

刘建伟，北京航空航天大学电子信息工程学院教授，博士生导师，党委书记，中国密码学会理事。出版专著和教材5部，发表论文100余篇，获授权发明专利15项。主持国家“973计划”、“863计划”、国家自然科学基金等项目20余项，以及多个国家级奖项。 王琼，现任空军某部副译审。1988年毕业于山东大学外文系英国语言文学专业，获文学学士学位。同年入伍，长期从事外语教学和翻译工作，曾获军队院校外语教学基本功竞赛一等奖和空军优秀翻译奖，荣立三等功一次。

Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.