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Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. "Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit." - The TimesThe 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 Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them. "A genuine literary masterpiece... Brideshead Revisited is actually a wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story about an impressionable young man, Charles Ryder, who goes to Oxford in the 1930s and falls in love with a family: the wealthy, eccentric, aristocratic Flytes, owners of a grand old country house called Brideshead... Told in flashbacks from the dark days of World War II, the novel is aglimmer with the guttering candle glow of an elegant age

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Author

Waugh, Evelyn

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141187471

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.99 / 5 (211 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13