Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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Penguin, 2011 - Fiction - 451 pages
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 the author (2011)

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. His first novel, Decline and Fall, was published in 1928 and it was soon followed by: Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). He travelled extensively, served in the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Guards and continued to write, winning many prestigious literary awards. Brideshead Revisited was first published in 1945. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.

Bibliographic information

TitleBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Volume 15 of Penguin classics
AuthorEvelyn Waugh
Edition15, reprint
PublisherPenguin, 2011
ISBN0141193484, 9780141193489
Length451 pages
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Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / Friendship
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
  
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