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Brideshead Revisited (75th Anniversary Edition)

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Brideshead Revisited is a masterful novel by Evelyn Waugh that explores themes of desire, love, and the decline of the English aristocracy during the final days of the British Empire. Through Charles Ryder's complex relationships with the Flyte family, a distinguished Catholic lineage, the story reflects on a privileged world fading away, enriched by a poignant evocation of pleasures lost to wartime austerity. The narrative combines romance, comedy, and somber reflection to create a deeply lyrical and elegiac portrayal of a bygone era.
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This novel is ideal for readers who appreciate classic English literature, historical fiction, and stories rich in emotional depth and social commentary. It will especially appeal to those interested in exploring themes of nostalgia, faith, and the transformation of society in the early twentieth century.

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Set in England, covering the time period from the 1920s through World War II, the story examines the wealthy Flyte family through the eyes of Sebastian Flyte's less wealthy school friend Charles Ryder. The novel is a story of faith and disillusionment in a glamorous upper-class world.

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The gorgeous 75th-anniversary edition of Brideshead Revisited, the novel selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times.

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 sombre, 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: 9780316242103

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 November 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Little, Brown & Company

Edition: Special ed.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 431g

Pages: 432

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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