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Brideshead Revisited

The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
By Evelyn Waugh
Series: Penguin Essentials
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Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is a reflective tale centred around Charles Ryder and his relationship with the aristocratic Flyte family, particularly the enigmatic Sebastian and Julia. Set against the backdrop of the interwar period in England, the novel explores themes of love, faith, and the passage of time, weaving together the grandeur and decay of the British aristocracy with personal quests for meaning. Through its richly detailed narrative, readers encounter a poignant portrait of a vanished era.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring themes of nostalgia, aristocratic society, and complex relationships. Set between the two world wars, it vividly portrays the intertwined lives of the British nobility and the struggle between faith and desire, all through evocative prose and rich character development.

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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 which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian.

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Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of a glittering, but rapidly vanishing, privileged world.

'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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Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited is praised for being a wildly entertaining and poignantly funny-sad story, as noted in Time. The Times highlights it as the quintessential Oxford novel, celebrating its lush and evocative prose.

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ISBN: 9780241951613

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 April 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

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Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 112.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 234g

Pages: 432

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About the Author

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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