Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In our eighty-eighth episode, we get a text that joins the ranks of Pamela and The Kite Runner for Abby's 'Most Hated': Evelyn Waugh's reactionary, nostalgic Gatsby rip-off, Brideshead Revisited (1945). It should otherwise be known as St. Augustine's Confessions ... with Cocktails.
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode Theme: Ambrose Orchestra's 'If They Ever Had an Income Tax on Love'.
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