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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Evelyn Waugh
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Description for Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Hardback. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 246 x 30. Weight in Grams: 454.
A beautiful clothbound edition of 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. The 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 ... Read more
A beautiful clothbound edition of 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. The 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Penguin Clothbound Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241284629
SKU
V9780241284629
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About Evelyn Waugh
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, 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Waugh's most deeply felt novel . . . Brideshead Revisited tells an absorbing story in imaginative terms . . . Mr. Waugh is very definitely an artist, with something like a genius for precision and clarity not surpassed by any novelist writing in English in his time. -New York Times A many-faceted book . . . Beautifully ... Read more