Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder (Penguin Essentials, 17) - Softcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241951615 ISBN 13: 9780241951613

Publisher: Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

'I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds.'

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world where duty and desire, faith and earthly happiness are in conflict; a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian.

A scintillating depiction of the decadent, privileged aristocracy prior to the Second World War, Brideshead Revisited is widely regarded as Evelyn Waugh's finest work.

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Review:

A wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story (Time)

The Oxford novel . . . lush and evocative (The Times)

From the Publisher:

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0241951615
• ISBN 13: 9780241951613
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 432