The Brideshead Generation
Evelyn Waugh and His Friends
Published on 7. November 2013
550 pages
978-0-571-30928-3 (ISBN)
Description
'[The Brideshead Generation] has both style and substance, and is above all an enjoyable companion. It has a wildly amusing cast, here controlled by a skilful director.' Evening Standard
'Jovial and entertaining, full of the sort of stories that your friends will tell you if you don't read it before them.' Independent
'Carpenter has read widely and has collected an enormous fund of entertaining stories and facts.' Sunday Telegraph
'Hauntingly sad and wonderfully funny and by far the best thing Humphrey Carpenter has done.' Fiona MacCarthy, The Times
'Jovial and entertaining, full of the sort of stories that your friends will tell you if you don't read it before them.' Independent
'Carpenter has read widely and has collected an enormous fund of entertaining stories and facts.' Sunday Telegraph
'Hauntingly sad and wonderfully funny and by far the best thing Humphrey Carpenter has done.' Fiona MacCarthy, The Times
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
5,31 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-30928-3 (9780571309283)
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Person
Humphrey Carpenter was born and educated in Oxford, and attended the Dragon School and Keble College. He was a well-known biographer and children's writer, and worked previously as a producer at the BBC. He wrote biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Ezra Pound, C. S. Lewis and Dennis Potter. Among his many books for children were the best-selling Mr Majeika series. He also wrote several plays for the theatre and radio. A keen musician, he was a member of a 1930s-style jazz band, Vile Bodies, which was resident at the Ritz Hotel in London for a number of years. He died in 2005.
Content
- Intro
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Author's Note
- PART I: 1918-1922: Eton Candle
- 1: '. Thought They Must Be Foreigners'
- 2: Come Nearer, Child
- 3: Suspended Boyhood
- PART II: 1922-1924: Et in Arcadia
- 1: Oxford Broom
- 2: '. Longed to Remain Myself and Yet Be Accepted .'
- 3: Hypocrites
- 4: Dear Private Giggles of a Private World
- 5: He Embodied Authority
- 6: A Dream Too Agreeable
- PART III: 1924-1929: Bright Young People
- 1: Struggle for Detachment
- 2: A Comic Novel
- 3: A Sort of Cumulative Futility
- PART IV: 1930-1934: In Search of a City
- 1: A New Order and Another Christendom
- 2: Remote People
- 3: Very Grim
- PART V: 1934-1939: The Gentleman's House
- 1: Berners Betjeman Country
- 2: A Fascist Tract
- 3: Setting Myself Up as a Squire
- 4: Ourselves Against the World
- PART VI: 1939-1945: Arcadia Revisited
- 1: Buggered About
- 2: A Total Misfit
- 3: Mag Op
- 4: Up in the Best-seller List
- PART VII: 1945-1966: Contra Mundum
- 1: Down with the Horrible Counter-Honnish Labour Party
- 2: Back to Prep School Again
- 3: Acute P.M.
- 4: The Death Wish
- Appendices
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Index
- A, B, C
- D, E, F
- G, H, I
- J, K, L
- M, N, O
- P, Q, R
- S, T, U
- V, W, X
- Y, Z
- Plates
- Copyright
