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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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