Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls ...

In the spring of 1943, disillusioned Army captain Charles Ryder stumbles upon Brideshead, once home to the Marchmain family, and recalls how he visited it for the first time twenty years ago. While ...

Dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel. Lord Marchmain returns to Brideshead with his mistress, who declares that he has come home to die. With Anthony Andrews.

Brideshead Revisited has become one of the inescapable cultural objects of our — comparatively — recent times. Many otherwise sober critics and literary scholars regard the novel as Evelyn Waugh’s ...

Making notes in 1949 for a review of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell wrote that “Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can be…while holding untenable opinions.” Which is a nice ...