Full name: Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends

Author: Humphrey Carpenter Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780571248339 0571248330

'[The Brideshead Generation] has both style and substance, and is above all an enjoyable companion. It has a wildly amusing cast, here controlled by a skilful director.' 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.' Independent'Carpenter has read widely and has collected an enormous fund of entertaining stories and facts.' Sunday Telegraph'Hauntingly sad and wonderfully funny and by far the best thing Humphrey Carpenter has done.' Fiona MacCarthy, The Times Similar books: The Impossible Exile by George Prochnik The Devil at Large by Erica Jong Mad World by Paula Byrne The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy Nightingales by Gillian Gill Mrs. Jordan's Profession by Claire Tomalin Harriet Beecher Stowe by Joan D. Hedrick The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate The Rockefellers by Peter Collier Sonya by Anne Edwards Five Sisters by James Fox The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe by Elaine Showalter Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin Mistress of the Elgin Marbles by Susan Nagel Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Wager with the Wind by James Greiner Like the Roman by Simon Heffer Memoirs by Pablo Neruda