Reviver o passado em Brideshead (CL)

Nos anos que se seguiram à I Guerra Mundial surge uma nova geração, ávida e vulnerável, sob uma aparência de esplendor. Os jovens de Mayfair dos anos 20, com a sua paradoxal mistura de inocência e sofisticação, exercitam as mentes inventivas e os seus corpos em brincadeiras caprichosas. ...

Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of HM prisons. ...

Vindo de Oxford em circunstâncias revoltantes, Paul Pennyfeather candidata-se ao lugar de director da escola de Llanabba Castle. Os seus colegas são uma variedade de inadaptados, patifes e palermas, incluindo Prendy e o capitão Grimes, sempre metido em sarilhos ou pura e simplesmente bêbedo. Che...

In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth, four of the master’s most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume. Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischievous–inventing a politically loopy African state as a means of pulverizing ...

Ronald Knox - priest, classicist and brilliant, prolific writer - was one of the outstanding men of letters of his time. The renowned Oxford chaplain was a friend of figures such as G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, and was known for his caustic wit and spiritual wisdom. Evelyn Waugh, his devoted...

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