From the Department of Not Leaving Well Enough Alone comes a new film version of “Brideshead Revisited,” Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel, a book previously made into an 11-hour British TV series in 1981.

Evelyn Waugh’s marvelous novel Brideshead Revisited begins as a coming-of-age story. At Oxford in the 1920s Charles Ryder crosses paths with the disarming, childlike aristocrat Sebastian Flyte; they ...

IN THE WEEKS after VE day, as British voters prepared to swap Winston Churchill for the Labour Party, the country’s fiction leapt into a radiant past. Published 75 years ago, at the end of May 1945, ...

With its blend of wistful nostalgia for and biting satire of bygone English nobility, Evelyn Waugh’s magnum opus, Brideshead Revisited, is among the most celebrated English novels — more despite, than ...

To paraphrase one of Brideshead Revisited’s most famous lines: we have been here before. In November, Little, Brown will release the 75th anniversary edition of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, set in the ...

As “The Dark Knight” is comic-book nerd holy scripture, “Brideshead Revisited” serves the same purpose to fans of a genre I personally refer to as Fancy British People Sitting Around Staggeringly Huge ...

It’s not easy turning a 300-plus-page, densely written classic novel into a 2-1/2 hour film. It’s even harder to compete with its beloved 11-hour television adaptation. And so director Julian ...

Why anyone thought it necessary to make another Brideshead Revisited is a mystery. The fondly regarded 1981 British television miniseries should have been the last word on Evelyn Waugh’s elegy to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Like Atonement before it, Brideshead Revisited is one of those astoundingly well-acted literary ...