Reading Evelyn Waugh’s two most important novels suggests a parallel with the cliché that when people first start drinking white wine they prefer the sweet and as they grow older their tastes become increasingly dry: by that analogy, Brideshead Revisited is the sugary intoxicant of youth, Sword of Honour the dry preference of maturity.
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Reading Evelyn Waugh’s two most important novels suggests a parallel with the cliché that when people first start drinking white wine they prefer the sweet and as they grow older their tastes become increasingly dry: by that analogy, Brideshead Revisited is the sugary intoxicant of youth, Sword of Honour the dry preference of maturity.