Waugh's 'Brideshead' Adapted for the Big Screen

With characteristic British self-deprecation, Evelyn Waugh wrote that he didn't believe that more than two Americans would enjoy his 1945 novel "Brideshead Revisited." That notion was scotched when the book became a best seller and was rendered even more absurd by the wildly popular reception that greeted the 11-hour Granada television adaptation of "Brideshead," which aired on PBS in 1982 — ......
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