Thread: Literary Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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Old 07-17-2015, 09:07 PM   #35
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On another note, I definitely want to read more Waugh eventually but am not sure which would be the best next novel to read - Men at Arms/The Sword of Honour trilogy? Scoop? A Handful of Dust? His first published novel Decline and Fall? Or something else?
IMHO, next to Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust is his next most brilliant work - funny, tragic, horrifying, jaw-dropping, -- you name it. The film version is also quite well done - Alec Guinness was brilliantly creepy.
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