![]() It is as if Evelyn Waugh came to believe that since about all he looked for in his companions was wealth, rank, Roman Catholicism (where possible) and beauty (where appropriate), those same attributes and no more would be sufficient for the central characters in a long novel, enough or getting on for enough, granted a bit of style thrown in, to establish them as both glamorous and morally significant. ![]() The chief reason for this success is obviously and simply that here we have a whacking, heavily romantic book about nobs. But long before the Granada TV serial came along it was his most enduringly popular novel the current Penguin reprint is the nineteenth in its line. The worst of his, worse even than The Loved One, must be Brideshead Revisited. Evelyn Waugh was a marvellous writer, but one of a sort peculiarly likely to write a bad book at any moment. ![]()
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