Brideshead revisited / Evelyn Waugh ; with an introduction by Frank Kermode
Material type: TextSeries: Everyman's library ; 172Publication details: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1993Description: xxxvii, 315 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0679423001 (acidfree paper)
- 9780679423003 (acidfree paper)
- 823.912
- PR6045.A97 B7 1993
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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 pleasures 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
Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates
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