Our forebear, Christopher Hitchens, has written, uncharacteristically, about Evelyn Waugh's magisterial
Brideshead Revisited for
The Guardian today. He begins and ends by bemoaning the latest film adaptation, which was never going to be as good as the earlier television series (why remake perfection?). And yet, at the heart of Hitchens' article is a perfect appraisal of why
Brideshead is so good. If you're studying
Brideshead for any kind of upcoming exam read Hitchens piece as a perfect model of how to construct an academic essay.
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