Topic: Charles Ryder

Book reviews: Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh

Helium - 470 days ago
British writers seem to have such a penchant for giving readers a view of a world thought hidden to most; a world full of high manners, well played roles, and lives hanging on a single word, threat, or understood promise. Ryder also ...

Ryder Marketing Is Incredible

hubPage - 489 days ago
Ryder Marketing Inc was founded by Charles Ryder. You can tell by reading the blog that Charles Ryder is a businessman first and internet marketer second. Without an understanding of the core elements of business, you won?t get too far in ...

Ten of the best episodes of drunkenness

guardian.co.uk - 1186 days ago
Lucky Jim, by Kingsley AmisIneffectual academic Jim Dixon must give a lecture on " He adds some champagne and passes out, "one happy yob".The Way of the World, by William CongreveOne of the few comic female boozers in English literature, Lady Wishfort ...

Recent audio books

Spectator, The London - 1195 days ago
When I hear the words Brideshead Revisited I have a Pavlovian response. Finally I swoon as I remember the ever so young and beautiful Anthony Andrews and Jeremy Irons romping around Morocco and Venice. First broadcast in 1981, the Granada serialisation of ...

Brideshead Revisited

guardian.co.uk - 1227 days ago
Evelyn Waugh, who liked neither medium, has been better served by television than by the cinema. The film version of A Handful of Dust (the work of the director and producer of the TV Brideshead), starring Waugh lookalike James Wilby, was fairly ...

Stop bashing Brideshead

ThisIsLondon.co.uk - 1230 days ago
I don't think Evelyn Waugh would spin in his grave if heaven showed him Julian Jarrold's version of his best known novel. In his book, Waugh, a conservative Catholic with one or two unlikely radical inclinations, told us how he ...

The tale of one man seduced by another man, his mother, his sister AND some sort of dirty uncle

guardian.co.uk - 1251 days ago
Which refers, it appears, to Emma Thompson, since she's the only lady we've seen this far, and also because when we did see her, she said 'Welcome to my home" or something like. So just in case we couldn't ...