A Companion to Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited

British Edition

by David Cliffe
 

What you will find in the Companion

Click on the underlined words to go to the indicated chapter

 Brideshead Site Home Page
 Contents - this page
 Technical Note - how you should view this site
 My Introduction to the Companion to Brideshead Revisited
 Note to the Second Edition
 A Chronology of Brideshead Revisited
 Three points concerning Evelyn Waugh’s Preface of 1960
 PROLOGUE Brideshead Revisited
 ET IN ARCADIA EGO 1. I meet Sebastian Flyte - and Anthony Blanche - I visit Brideshead for the first time
 ET IN ARCADIA EGO 2. My cousin Jasper’s Grand Remonstrance - a warning against charm - Sunday morning in Oxford
 ET IN ARCADIA EGO 3. My father at home - Lady Julia Flyte
 ET IN ARCADIA EGO 4. Sebastian at home - Lord Marchmain abroad
 ET IN ARCADIA EGO 5. Autumn in Oxford - dinner with Rex Mottram and supper with Boy Mulcaster - Mr Samgrass - Lady Marchmain at home - Sebastian contra mundum
 BRIDESHEAD DESERTED 1. Samgrass revealed - I take leave of Brideshead - Rex revealed
 BRIDESHEAD DESERTED 2. Julia and Rex
 BRIDESHEAD DESERTED 3. Mulcaster and I in defence of our country - Sebastian abroad - I take leave of Marchmain House
 A TWITCH UPON THE THREAD 1. Orphans of the Storm
 A TWITCH UPON THE THREAD 2. Private view - Rex Mottram at home
 A TWITCH UPON THE THREAD 3. The fountain
 A TWITCH UPON THE THREAD 4. Sebastian contra mundum
 A TWITCH UPON THE THREAD 5. Lord Marchmain at home - death in the Chinese drawing-room - the purpose revealed
 EPILOGUE Brideshead Revisited