Brideshead and the Tower Blocks
Patrick Wright, 2 June 1988
Home: A Short History of an Idea
by Witold Rybczynski.
Heinemann, 256 pp., £12.95, March 1988,0 434 14292 1 Show More
by Witold Rybczynski.
Heinemann, 256 pp., £12.95, March 1988,
“... Meanwhile there were other fictional portrayals of the final dismal collapse. In The House that Berry Built (published in January 1945) Dornford Yates went the whole distance, portraying an England that was simply no longer habitable. There had been a disastrous general election and there were some Cabinet members who ‘would not have qualified for the ... ”