The World of School
John Bayley, 28 September 1989
The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and his Friends
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Weidenfeld, 523 pp., £17.95, September 1989,0 297 79320 9 Show More
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Weidenfeld, 523 pp., £17.95, September 1989,
Osbert: A Portrait of Osbert Lancaster
by Richard Boston.
Collins, 256 pp., £17.50, August 1989,0 00 216324 1 Show More
by Richard Boston.
Collins, 256 pp., £17.50, August 1989,
Ackerley: A Life of J.R. Ackerley
by Peter Parker.
Constable, 465 pp., £16.95, September 1989,0 09 469000 6 Show More
by Peter Parker.
Constable, 465 pp., £16.95, September 1989,
“... gone from the drink. Details in Brideshead often have the penetrating enchantment they possess in Lewis Carroll or in Kafka. The chapel at the great house, with its Art Nouveau glass and trappings, is based on the church at Madresfield, the Lygon house near Bristol. But that is mere corroborative detail: much more in keeping with true Waugh fantasy is ... ”