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Page 108
... Brideshead Revisited was " Spam , black - outs and Nissen huts " . I feel much the same towards The Heart of the Matter , though my excuse might be different - " swamps , rain and a mad cook " - for our two wars were very different ...
... Brideshead Revisited was " Spam , black - outs and Nissen huts " . I feel much the same towards The Heart of the Matter , though my excuse might be different - " swamps , rain and a mad cook " - for our two wars were very different ...
Page 113
... Brideshead Revisited . It was the determining one of his life , indeed of many lives , for a similar choice was made by many of those I have called his generation , as we shall see . In Decline and Fall , Waugh discussed the question of ...
... Brideshead Revisited . It was the determining one of his life , indeed of many lives , for a similar choice was made by many of those I have called his generation , as we shall see . In Decline and Fall , Waugh discussed the question of ...
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... Brideshead , the house to which Sebastian drives him on that first expedition , the great baroque mansion with the foun- tain imported from Italy ; and beyond Brideshead stands Venice , which is the imaginative domain of Lord March ...
... Brideshead , the house to which Sebastian drives him on that first expedition , the great baroque mansion with the foun- tain imported from Italy ; and beyond Brideshead stands Venice , which is the imaginative domain of Lord March ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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