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Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea-sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic,
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780316042994
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (511 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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