作者简介

Evelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College. He said of his time there, “…the whole of English education when I was brought up was to produce prose writers; it was all we were taught, really.” He went on to Hertford College, Oxford, where he read History. When asked if he took up any sports there he quipped, “I drank for Hertford.”
In 1924 Waugh left Oxford without taking his degree. After inglorious stints as a school teacher (he was dismissed for trying to seduce a school matron and/or inebriation), an apprentice cabinet maker and journalist, he wrote and had published his first novel, “Decline and Fall” in 1928.
In 1928 he married Evelyn Gardiner. She proved unfaithful, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1930. Waugh would derive parts of “A Handful of Dust” from this unhappy time. His second marriage to Audrey Herbert lasted the rest of his life and begat seven children. It was during this time that he converted to Catholicism.
During the thirties Waugh produced one gem after another. From this decade come: “Vile Bodies” (1930), “Black Mischief” (1932), the incomparable “A Handful of Dust” (1934) and “Scoop” (1938). After the Second World War he published what is for many his masterpiece, “Brideshead Revisited,” in which his Catholicism took centre stage. “The Loved One” a scathing satire of the American death industry followed in 1947. After publishing his “Sword of Honour Trilogy” about his experiences in World War II - “Men at Arms” (1952), “Officers and Gentlemen” (1955), “Unconditional Surrender" (1961) - his career was seen to be on the wane. In fact, “Basil Seal Rides Again” (1963) - his last published novel - received little critical or commercial attention.
Evelyn Waugh, considered by many to be the greatest satirical novelist of his day, died on 10 April 1966 at the age of 62.

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The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.


Evelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College. He said of his time there, “…the whole of English education when I was brought up was to produce pros...

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    无法细说对这本小说的热爱。过眼云烟这样的词也远远无法形容故园风雨后的物是人非。[BL文写到这个程度才叫真正的文艺,晋江的作者们请多点进取心吧03-02
  • ppg
    这本书与红楼梦的相似之处不仅仅在一个贵族家庭的衰落、人物被命运裹挟的无常、华丽细节下不为人知的悲哀,对于我,它们都有一种不足与外人道也、只可意会不可言传的好,那种好流淌在细微的字句、琐碎的片段里,你只能去读它,任何描述的企图都只会显得很二手、很无力。06-05
  • musecat
    不得不承认在看过电影电视剧和原著后,这个故事对我还是像覆着一层轻纱般难以参透……讽刺又优雅,深情却冷漠,说不清它到底是虔诚还是亵渎。08-24
  • 豪华迷你陀螺
    书的第三部分比电影要绝望的多,大概是因为第一人称的关系。03-28
  • 东林君
    应该是今年读过的最爱了。读第三遍时发现过去许多没注意的细节:经常去伦敦的丈夫是串梗《一抔尘土》;书末关于勋爵是否忏悔和赎罪的争论,实际上是Charles挽回和拯救Julia的最后努力。年轻时我们把讽刺和满不在乎当作最高级的聪明和洒脱,现在才知道对一个人全身心的爱与奉献与牺牲才是所有智慧的根源以及面对死亡恐惧时得救的唯一出路。10-21

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