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Brideshead Benighted
Satirical essays discuss life in modern Britain, including royalty, the working classes, politics, education, the press, religion, drugs, and law and order
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221 pages, Hardcover
First published June 19, 1986
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January 9, 2023
Nothing is funnier than a collection of Auberon Waugh's best columns, but this isn't it. Did he decide his wit made him a serious thinker? It doesn't work that way, as H.L. Mencken demonstrated a few decades earlier. Some of these Spectator pieces from the '70s and '80s are terrific, and some - especially the ones on the virtues of old-fashioned Catholicism, a subject he obviously cared about - are earnest and dull. On social issues, an essay about bringing back hanging is hilarious, while two or three contrarian efforts on criminal cases involving the deaths of children are cringe-inducing. Read his Private Eye columns instead.
January 25, 2014
I just want to say that the title of this book is "Brideshead Benighted" NOT "Brideshead Beknighted"
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