xtrmntr75 's review for:

Brideshead Revisited: 75th Anniversary Edition by Evelyn Waugh

5.0

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In an effort to read more of the Great Novels, I bought this a few weeks ago and I’m so glad I did. And while the prose is elliptical in that way that most older novels are (as much due to changes in the way we communicate as to the glossing-over of more “explicit” themes that had to be rendered implicit at the time) BRIDESHEAD still reads really quickly and if it makes you “work for it” a little more than contemporary novels do, it’s a pleasure doing so. There really isn’t much to say about this that hasn’t been said thousands of times since it’s publication, but it was a true pleasure to read and is so obviously a huge influence on more modern books I’ve read over the years without knowing their debt to Waugh (McEwan’s ATONEMENT springs to mind). Excellent.