Read Brideshead Revisited

A nature columnist sent by mistake to cover an African war; Waugh's Fleet Street satire.

Down the rabbit hole with the Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts; nonsense with logic underneath.

A provincial town in 1830, Dorothea and Lydgate marrying wrong; the novel novelists call the best.

A dairymaid ruined by two men and hanged for it; Hardy's angriest book.

One June day in London, a party and a shell-shocked veteran; Woolf's stream of consciousness.

A Hebridean summer house before and after the war; the "Time Passes" section.

An Englishwoman accuses an Indian doctor after the Marabar Caves; Forster on the Raj.

Two sisters, a merchant family and a clerk in Edwardian England; "only connect".