This is a treasure of an incredible work of literature and the gift of Sir John’s gorgeous voice and talent. Perfection.

A great narration of a much loved classic book. Brideshead Revisited is a favourite of mine. It has a cast of flawed characters, but to be human is to be imperfect. The sense of melancholy and nostalgia is ever present and is what makes the novel so special.

@williamrichard-dostie8779

2 жыл бұрын

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What a glorious find! Especially on a day when I was a little under par with an awful headache, feeling strangely detached and shunned from all the world. I didn't have to search, Evelyn Waugh's famous book was just there waiting for me on the screen with none other than Sir John Gielgud patiently waiting to read to me the period masterpiece I had been aware of for a lifetime, but had never read nor watched. After an hour or so I drifted off to sleep dreaming that a tiny packet containing the minidisc audiobook contained only the first half of the story. Such relief when I awoke nine hours later to find my phone had merely auto-paused. Hence now I am looking forward to Sir John's wonderful voice continuing the remainder of the tale for me over dinner. And yes, I feel much better, nor so alone with a fine apetite having returned and I have this audio-book to thank for all that. Thank you. 💖

@kimquinn7728

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful description. You sound like you write, yourself. Glad you feel better.

@frederickbowdler8169

2 жыл бұрын

Yes lovely comments please to remember never give money to Sebastian or his 🐻 bear!

@Peace-tk3gr

2 жыл бұрын

Eloquent 👌

@joschepens1724

2 жыл бұрын

@@frederickbowdler8169 lol! I've got a wicked cold, so I'm sniffling....and listening💜

@lauratanner8475

2 жыл бұрын

@@mnmscloud9 Too much opioids will make your poop hard and that's no joke

If anyone saw the movie "Arthur" with Dudley Moore, you must remember his man servant/valet/butler/minder, John Gieldgud. John was the ultimate straight-man. One of my favorite John G. performances. I am so looking forward to his reading of BH Revisited. John died in 2000 (age 96).

@markwhitman9542

2 жыл бұрын

It seems strangely twisted that one of the greatest actors/directors of the 20th century is described as a 'straight man' to Dudley Moore in ARTHUR. John Gielgud was in fact highly comedic in that very picture. However, he headlined in HAMLET in some of the most celebrated productions of that vaunted play in Britain & America. And directed Richard Burton in celebrated versions of the same. Appeared in early Hitchcock films, dozens of television & film roles over 60 years, etc. Much like Fanny Brice being referred to only as Baby Snooks...

@marc4199

2 жыл бұрын

He also had a memorable performance as Mr. Beddows, the man-servant in Murder on the Orient Express.

@melaniecarlson4718

2 жыл бұрын

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@MissSpookyMooky

Жыл бұрын

"Take the books back to the Library!" He lent himself to comedy with the same dignity and class that he lent to everything else. This character and his role as Charles Ryder's father in Brideshead are basically exactly what my late father was like. I love Gielgud as Hobson. Wonderful.

@hermajesty52

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of how the great Alec Guinness was known to younger audiences as Obi Wan Kenobi 😂🤷🏼‍♀️. Little did they know~~~~~🫢

Johnny reading Brideshead is double bliss . His own role playing Charles Ryder's father in the original TV series was superb .

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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What an absolutely wonderful treat to come across this gem💎!!! Ahhh.... the John Gielgud style, and accent and delivery 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 Pure Class. Thanks for uploading this😍👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

John Geilgud has always been one of my favourite actors. I loved listening to his reading.

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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Brilliantly narrated… it kept me very engaged. Thank you very much👍🏼

The combination of the beautiful prose and a great narrator is wonderful

This book has been dear to my heart for 20 years.

What a fabulous jewel to have such a marvelous book read by the most appropriate reader….thank you Waugh and Gielgud!

Love his voice. Easy to listen through in one go, it's like butter with an accent. Ha. Thanks so much for the upload!

I wish there was video of John reading. I never tire of him nor can I ever get enough. Love him.

Perfect in every way. Painfully beautiful. Expertly flawed personalities. Such a treat to hear once more and by no better narrator.

@terenceoshea4049

2 жыл бұрын

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Thank you so much for this. You have made my life the better for this.

Thank you for sharing this. I watched this on MasterpieceTheater with my mother when I was 14. Splendid novel and screenplay. John Gielgud reading it makes it special.

What a lovely story, made even better with Sir John Gielgud's voice.

it is the only novel I have ever read by Waugh. I think it is a masterpiece. Most modern novelists are simply unable to compete with his wonderful prose and literary conjuring. After reading this book, one almost yearns to have once played a part within Charle's life. Outstanding prose that conjure up wondrous mental imagery that must only be read again and again.

@mbd6054

3 жыл бұрын

Please read more of his novels. They'll bring you so much pleasure.

@hugohugo2832

2 жыл бұрын

He’s written even better ones

@sofiawyshkind182

2 жыл бұрын

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@pauljanzen4605

Жыл бұрын

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@hugohugo2832

Жыл бұрын

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The perfect unnunciation of the hideous Human. This is why I have respect and love for Animals ❤

Loved the mini series of this book back in the day.

Thanks for posting this. Impossible to tire of Gielgud's mellifluous voice. Waugh's writing is positively brilliant--beautiful, witty, and clever. Sebastian Flyte comes across here as much more intelligent than his TV portrait.

@RapunzelinOttawa

2 жыл бұрын

If you love John Gielgud's voice, check out a magnificent indie movie by Peter Greenaway called 'Propero's Books'. It's about the state of mind of Shakespeare inside the mind of Prospero, while he's writing The Tempest. Gielgud narrates throughout.

@howtosurviveelectronichara6474

2 жыл бұрын

@@RapunzelinOttawa you mean E. de Vere? Check out Alexander Waugh for the real Shakespeare 💮

@andyherrington3963

2 жыл бұрын

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Thank You! This is a treasure.

I have just re watched the series of Brideshead in the wake of losing our dear queen. It made me smile so. It is so beautiful and dignified, even when certain characters aren't being particularly dignified they still are. And hearing this read by my absolute favourite Brit actor is a truly wonderful find. I met him briefly at Pinewood Studios back in the 90's. Thanks for uploading it.

@alabamah

Жыл бұрын

>> "It made me smile so." This made me smile so.

Delicious slice of Waughs genius , Sir John Gielgud was a firm favourite actor of my grandmothers as I grew up & I adore his beautiful voice.

This recording is still available in cassette form, I bought mine on the UK eBay site. They sell for for $10-$20 US.

Thanks for this gem. There was an incredibly beautiful reading of the whole book by Jeremy Irons some time ago, but KZread took it down.

@CJ-ft9yo

Ай бұрын

No it’s still on KZread - showing the penguin cover

I love how he gives a little laugh at some of the funny parts! Thank you for this.

Thank you. We really enjoyed this production. Cheers !

Thank you. Lovely prose beautifully read...

I watched Gelgud in "No Man's Land" (Pinter), he was so much more than a voice. Everything he did was extraordinary - the way he held his whisky with a finger of his free-hand touching the glass, the way he slightly skips when told to help himself to the drinks cabinet.

Gielgud makes that era come to life as none other can. Maybe because he belonged to it , perhaps.

Gielgud had the best voice in the English language. RIP.

It's charles' father reading the book to me!! Fascinating.

@nickdrakestuff

2 жыл бұрын

More like Charles himself. Since Gielgud was born the same year Charles would have been, and like him, was bisexual and upper-middle class.

I wish this were the full book but hey, I could listen to Sir John Gielgud read the entire phone book!

@staceyvanadder6040

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha😂🤣. You’re right. He could make anything fascinating

@barujhashem8

2 жыл бұрын

Now hashtags, indeed, yes, indeed.

@gardensofthegods

2 жыл бұрын

Scentsurround , the miniseries of this with Jeremy Irons was excellent and it was here on KZread ... I don't know if it's still is .

The perfect reading. Completely captivating.

The series stayed true to the novel, unlike most adaptions brought to the screen.

@nickandrachelmajor8487

2 жыл бұрын

The new film is an abomination. The series was perfect

@castlerock58

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickandrachelmajor8487 I never even watched it. You can't beat the series. There is no point creating something that is bound to be inferior. It's as stupid as doing a remake of a masterpiece like Casablanca or Citizen Kane.

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

So good. I watched it every time it was on. Still love Sebastian & Aloysius

@DarkDreamsAndMoonlitNights

2 жыл бұрын

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this should be stored in an armageddon-proof vault so we always have a record of what proper English diction sounded like

John Gielgud was born around the time Charles and Sebastian would have been born. His voice is of their generation.

Thank you so much for this.

I look forward to his next syllable with great _eagerness!_ 🙃

A gem. Thank you.

@MoreThanMistified

3 жыл бұрын

Yes The movie is one of my favorites. Listening I was watching the movie in my head. In another world I was.

Thank You very much. This great!

This was the recording that introduced me to this masterpiece. That was in 1986. Then it seemed absolutely perfect. Still does.

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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This is beautifully narrated, but is abridged

Much as I love Gielgud, no actor narrates this as well as Jeremy Irons, whose voice in itself is heart-stopping & always subtly emotional, meaningful.

@mckavitt

6 жыл бұрын

Snaggle Toothed Irons gives a slightly more tragically muted take on "all that", it is true. But remains from his first recorded word, as irresistible as he is unforgettable.

@louise-yo7kz

2 жыл бұрын

He's certainly a great narrator, no doubt

Gielgud delivers the whole range of characters in his own impeccable received pronunciation, is he even an actor?

@almapendergrass7810

2 жыл бұрын

Completely agreed!

@veritas6335

2 жыл бұрын

Is he an actor? You're asking this about one of the leading lights and finest actors in the British theater?

@ralphmaiph

2 жыл бұрын

@@veritas6335 Correct. Nominally an 'actor' but playing himself throughout so not really acting. You follow?

Wow- this was incredible

Well narrated nice story ry, great piece of literature ♥️👍♥️

Amazing!

Beautiful narration I can listen to John Gilgud forever + Eternity! This makes life more manageable, more tolerable.

Almost a shame to have it abridged, but Gielgud's accent/phrasing makes this a real treasure

@EVZYL

9 ай бұрын

There was an incredibly beautiful reading of the whole book by Jeremy Irons some time ago, but KZread took it down.

@veritas6335

9 ай бұрын

Jeremy Irons was better.

@conniekampas7074

7 ай бұрын

KZread please bring back the unabridged version of Brideshead Revisited by Jeremy Irons. Thank you

If I had to design the perfect channel, this would be it... Thank you, and subscribed... 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Nobody better than Sir John Gielgud to have narrated this.

Quite the book! Quite the reader!

Excellent recording and novel. Thank you for making it available in KZread. One can detect that Evelyn Waugh has a sychophantic admiration for the priviledge classes. How different his treatment of the aristocrats is from the way Tolstoy does it.

@2msvalkyrie529

2 жыл бұрын

Like the sainted Virginia Woolf he was a vicious snob.

@scribe56

2 жыл бұрын

KZread is a treasure beyond belief. I have Found music that I thought was lost to me because I no longer have my records. Movies old TV shows comedy audio books asmr nature sounds for sleeping

@raylouis9218

2 жыл бұрын

As opposed to pretending to care about the working classes ?

Fabulous reading. Thank yoyu.

Sir John Gielgud could have read the telephone directory and made it enjoyable. The greatest actor had a voice of honey wrapped up in velvet.

Yes.. I love the accent and listen over and over

I woke up to this, thanks KZread recommendations

Brilliant!

John Gilgieud reading anything is worth listening to.

fantastic, yes abridged of course, but what u expect at 2hr 15 lol. very transporting.

Fantastic book 👍

anybody could recommend the subtitle, it's different with the book,thanks

Gielgud's nuanced delivery captures the essence of Waugh's characters beautifully and makes this a wonderful listening experience. Thank you !!

God how I love Gielgud!,

I went to sleep with “The 39 Steps” on autoplay. I woke up to Sir John Gielgud and “Brides-head Revisited”. Had an unusually quiet, pleasant sleep, despite the pains of disability. And, continuing quietly, soothing, with my morning coffee. To be followed by a cup of Earl Grey. In honor of Sir John Gielgud. Thank you.

I even like listening to him inhale through his nose.

@barujhashem8

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely 👍

@booshaboo1

2 жыл бұрын

Lol 😤

What a wonderful find! New subscriber here.

I have a book about the stage written and signed by John Gielgud, one of my prized possessions. A man of many talents and the nephew of the great Victorian actress Helen Terry, Gielgud was a unique character and it is such a treat that we can still enjoy that voice here on KZread. Thank you.

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Sir John Gielgud's version is the audio 'par excellence', iMHO far more lively and full of emotion than Jeremy Irons (who sounds like he is sedated with valium and can hardly move his lips on the eBook version). Is there the full, unabridged version of Gielgud? My parents used to have it on cassette, and through my entire childhood we would listen for every long motorvehicle drive... The abridged version is missing some great moments like the complete verse of Jaspar's Grand Remonstrance and other wonderful paragraphs. Does anyone have the FULL UNABRIDGED version of Gielgud's narration, please?!

@johnrichardson6296

5 жыл бұрын

You and I seem to be in the minority, Christian, as I, too, always find Jeremy Irons' complete book reading rather dull - as if he fees he is too great and grand to bother to put too much effort into it (yes, he gives the impression of feeling that he is so 'superior' to all of us that he does not need to bother to move his lips or change his tone much). I think he is much better in the TV series, however. But Gielgud here is excellent; for me, he puts Jeremy Irons (as a narrator) in the shade: he has vitality, expression, clarity of communication of the meaning, variations in tone and colour. Excellent.

The bbc minie series was wonderful. Jeremy irons was terrific.

i was looking for John Gielgud reads Brideshead Revisited by Eugene O'Neill. i'll keep lookin'.....

What a voice

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I am trying to influence all my grandchildren to audible books .... I fear for our future without the classics or transference of the wisdom of the ages

@klausconteschertel2353

2 жыл бұрын

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@selinahsu3361

2 жыл бұрын

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@GlasgowGallus

Жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more madame, we live in an age where ignorance is embraced... Be well 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@mikewingert5521

11 ай бұрын

Why are they not reading real books? Only the stupid don’t read. It’s so important in the 21st century; especially so.

I was sleeping, woke up to pee, and appearantly this was playing in the background

Gielgud is fabulous but he does seem to race through it.

May I suggest, listen to Jeremy Irons reading the same text. No one can compare, ear of the beholder of course but have a listen and see what you think.

What is the reason for cutting so much of the book? Was Geilgud charging by the word or something? " Abridged?" More like slashed.

Better than any sleeping pill.

How do explain the deliberate cruelty and indifference this father shows towards his own son, the character played by Irons ? And how and why does Irons NOT have any of these awful traits himself ? ? sorry, I have forgotten Iron's characters name ! ! ! Oops !

@MargauxStewart

2 жыл бұрын

The Iron's character IS named, Charles Ryder.

thank you.

What is this? The Cliff Notes version?

This is not a Librivox recording...

@YvonneWilson312

2 жыл бұрын

Whoever suggested that it was?

@bronzeladdy53

2 жыл бұрын

thank goodness!!

At 10:10: " ... and a bottle of Chateau Perrier." A French champagne.

@abramyanirina

7 жыл бұрын

that was a bottle of Chateau Payraguey, as far as I remember

@dudanunesbleff

2 жыл бұрын

@@abramyanirina There is no champagne by that name.

@irinaabramyan1453

2 жыл бұрын

@@dudanunesbleff Chateau Payraguey is a Sauternes wine from the Sauternes appellation, nothing to do with Champagne.

Delicious.

This is from the 1996 Argo english recording audiobook collection.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I once owned this and somehow it got away from me.

@mikea.6121

3 жыл бұрын

@Deal Hudson how fascinating to see someone I’ve heard of randomly appear in the comments!

@hudsondeal

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikea.6121 that’s one virtue of social media. Deal

@mikea.6121

3 жыл бұрын

@Deal Hudson One of the few! I shudder to think what Evelyn Waugh would make of FaceBook and Twitter... :)

Great.

this is abridged, just a heads up

@capekurtz

8 жыл бұрын

+Eduardo Marquez Sorry cousin Jasper's advice to Charles Ryder is omitted - the best para. in the book.

@preksto

8 жыл бұрын

+capekurtz "The grand remonstrance." I wonder why?

@cherrytreglown

8 жыл бұрын

What was the advice ?

@capekurtz

8 жыл бұрын

If you don't have the book, you can find it (almost complete) in Episode 1, Part 3 in the BBC's production on KZread.

@rodrigoreisbrito

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I realised this when Charles failed to describe how Sebastian's other guests avoided showing curiosity about him when they came to the first luncheon to which S. invited Ch.

What a discovery ....

I can only invision this as Sherlock Holmes

Sir John Ging-Gold as Hankers would say😅

Such a woeful story that depicted the pitiful and shallow lives of an effete and over privileged family riven by a brooding guilt formed by their blind attachment to a sanctimonious and overly pious faith. The only worthwhile character was the immoderately animated and exuberant Anthony Blanche who was the only one who was able to see how deplorable the Flyte family truly are.

@michelleeden2272

2 жыл бұрын

I see the characters as symptomatic of an end-of-an-era decadence. Once WW2 ended the socialists put an end to British wealth and the privilege that sprung from it. In this context, faith was merely a balm that slowed the rot.

Why is he skipping huge parts of the prologue ? Is it an ancient version of the book ?

@craigcarlock5799

2 жыл бұрын

It is the abridged version. The full audiobook is over 11 hours.

@johnjones6601

2 жыл бұрын

@@craigcarlock5799 Any idea where to get the full version? Thanks!

At 54:52: " ... Carpentier ... "; the boxer, probably.

It's a pity they couldn't get Jeremy Irons to read this. He did it best. You can find him doing just that and the entire original tv series Brideshead Revisited on Tubi - a TV movie channel - which is superb. Worth the search.

@Dovewhite60

8 ай бұрын

Jeremy reads it beautifully on Audible.

@EVZYL

7 ай бұрын

It is back on youtube too: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y2GE2qdyfdXcp7Q.htmlsi=BmDA0A4YWnJO5G4q@@Dovewhite60