Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memoriesof Captain Charles Ryder - Hardcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316926272 ISBN 13: 9780316926270

Publisher: Little Brown and Company, 1982

Synopsis

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world where duty and desire, faith and earthly happiness are in conflict; a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian.

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Review:

A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0316926272
• ISBN 13: 9780316926270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 351