Questions tagged [brideshead-revisited]

"Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder", a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh. Use with the [evelyn-waugh] tag.

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Brideshead Revisited: Prince Rupert’s Horse

Hooper, in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, was no romantic. He had not as a child ridden with Rupert's horse or sat among the camp fires at Xanthus-side; at the age when my eyes were dry to all ...
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Is there a hidden meaning in the name of Captain Foulenough?

The novel Brideshead Revisited features a secondary character, a certain Captain Foulenough. In Russian translation his last name is rendered as Буремглой, obviously referring to a Pushkin's line ...
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