From the Department of Not Leaving Well Enough Alone comes a new film version of “Brideshead Revisited,” Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel, a book previously made into an 11-hour British TV series in 1981.

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED—Evelyn Waugh—Little, Brown ($2.50). Early one morning in 1944, a flight of German dive bombers swooshed down on the headquarters of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia.

My wife gave me a copy of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh for my birthday the other day. It was mainly because we caught some of the episodes of the UK TV series on Aussie TV recently, and I ...

It’s not easy turning a 300-plus-page, densely written classic novel into a 2-1/2 hour film. It’s even harder to compete with its beloved 11-hour television adaptation. And so director Julian ...

With its blend of wistful nostalgia for and biting satire of bygone English nobility, Evelyn Waugh’s magnum opus, Brideshead Revisited, is among the most celebrated English novels — more despite, than ...

Why anyone thought it necessary to make another Brideshead Revisited is a mystery. The fondly regarded 1981 British television miniseries should have been the last word on Evelyn Waugh’s elegy to ...