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Brideshead Revisited

The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By Evelyn Waugh
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Brideshead Revisited follows Charles Ryder's complex relationship with the Flyte family, a privileged English Catholic household, against the backdrop of a fading aristocratic era. The novel explores themes of desire, duty, memory, and the tensions between sensuous pleasures and wartime austerity, combining romance, comedy, and sombre reflection to evoke a rich portrait of England's past.
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Format: Hardback
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"Originally published in United States by Little, Brown and Company, January 1946"--T.p. verso.

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Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.

The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece—a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire.

Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.

"A genuine literary masterpiece." —Time

"Heartbreakingly beautiful...The twentieth century's finest English novel." —Los Angeles Times

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780316216449

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 December 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: Little, Brown & Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 163.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 658g

Pages: 416

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Classic Fiction Evelyn Waugh Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction History & Archaeology History & Military Literary Fiction Military History

About the Author

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

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