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The Brideshead Generation book. Carpenter has read widely and has collected an enormous ' has both style and substance, and is above all an enjoyable companion. It has a wildly amusing cast, here controlled by a skilful director. Jovial and entertaining, full of the sort of stories that your friends will tell you if you don't read it before them. Carpenter has read widely and has collected an enormous fund of entertaining stories and facts.

has both style and substance, and is above all an enjoyable companion. Evening Standard'Jovial and entertaining, full of the sort of stories that your friends will tell you if you don't read it before them. r has read widely and has collected an enormous fund of entertaining stories and facts. Sunday sad and wonderfully funny and by far the best thing Humphrey Carpenter has done. Fiona MacCarthy, The Times.

A Peter Davison book. I ask only once a year: please help the Internet Archive today. I found Carpenter's overall tone towards Waugh a little too reverent at times. It has a wildly amusing cast. He was a fine writer and I appreciate that he was a formidable personality, but there were plenty of occasions when he was ridiculous, or nasty, where I don't feel it was necessary to continue to defer to him on the grounds of his literary genius. I always want some sense that the biographer or historian is on near equal footing with his subject in some area of active or mental life, and I never feel this with Carpenter.

Though Humphrey Carpenter's new book, ''The Brideshead Generation,'' touches briefly upon the forces that shaped Waugh and his friends -namely, the convulsive aftereffects of World War I, and the emergence of a ne. .

Though Humphrey Carpenter's new book, ''The Brideshead Generation,'' touches briefly upon the forces that shaped Waugh and his friends -namely, the convulsive aftereffects of World War I, and the emergence of a new bourgeois society - it makes little serious attempt to situate this group of writers within the continuum of English cultural history or to assess its overall. of these writers vis-a-vis earlier and later literary groups personified by Kipling, Orwell and Auden

Audrey Evelyn James was born on 21 April 1902, officially the daughter of William Dodge James and Evelyn Elizabeth . Carpenter, Humphrey (2013). The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends. p. 22. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

Audrey Evelyn James was born on 21 April 1902, officially the daughter of William Dodge James and Evelyn Elizabeth Forbes Edward James, in his memoirs, writes that he is not, as believed, the son of Edward VII, but he was indeed his grandson, being their grandmother who had an affair with the Prince of Wales. Rereading this after 14 years - what a wonderful book! By Thriftbooks. com User, May 26, 2007. I loved it the first time but may be enjoying it even more the second-possibly because in the interim I have read Beerbohm (Zuleika Dobson in particular; the existence of which this book made me aware), Powell's Dance to the Music of Time, and others.

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 13: 9780297793205. Title: Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Author: Humphrey Carpenter ISBN 10: 0297793209. Read full description. See details and exclusions. See all 11 pre-owned listings. Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends by Humphrey Carpenter (Hardback, 1989). Pre-owned: lowest price.

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Jovial and entertaining, full of the sort of stories that your friends will tell you if you don't read it before them. Hauntingly sad and wonderfully funny and by far the best thing Humphrey Carpenter has done.