Jeremy Irons reads Evelyn Waugh's classic tale of love and the loss of innocence. Charles Ryder's friendship with the charming, irrepressible Sebastian Flyte and his equally charming, eccentric family begins when they are both Oxford undergraduates in 1923. Carefree days of drinking champagne and dr[...]

Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has brought him a host of friends around the world. He is a warm person who knows a good friend when he sees one and is revered by all those with whom there has been mutual acceptance.[...]

Evelyn Waugh presented his biography of St. Edmund Campion, the Elizabethan poet, scholar and gentleman who became the haunted, trapped and murdered priest as "a simple, perfectly true story of heroism and holiness."But it is written with a novelist's eye for the telling incident and with all the el[...]

Oxford held a special place in Evelyn Waugh's imagination. So formative were his Oxford years that the city never left him, appearing again and again in his novels in various forms. This book explores in rich visual detail the abiding importance of Oxford as both location and experience in his liter[...]

In 1925 at Oxford Charles Ryder is befriended by the louche and flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, son of Lord and Lady Marchmain. Charles is quickly seduced by his friend's opulent and glamorous world and thrilled by an invitation to 'Brideshead', the Marchmain's magnificent ancestral home.[...]

Brideshead i nyöversättning

Jag kände Sebastian till utseendet långt innan jag träffade honom. Det var oundvikligt, för redan från den första veckan var han den mest ryktbare studenten i sin årskull på grund av sin skönhet, som var anslående, och på grund av sina excentriska infa[...]

»Den störste romanförfattaren i min generation.« GRAHAM GREENE »En av 1900-talets 100 bästa engelskspråkiga romaner.« TIME MAGAZINE »Evelyn Waughs prosa lär leva så länge människor kan läsa.« TIMES »Giftigt slagkraftig roman.« NEW YORK TIMES Ingen har skildrat brittisk aristokrati[...]