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Brideshead Revisited. A generation of wealthy, careless, and independent men and women cling to a way of life that is eroded by one war and soon to be swept away by another. In 1944, Charles Ryder visits Brideshead, a bleak, temporary Army camp. Charles is summoned to Brideshead Castle for a summer of enchantment with Sebastian.
Brideshead Revisited is a novel by English author Evelyn Waugh that was first published in 1945. It portrays upper-class Britain from the post-war 1920s into the World War II years and focuses on Charles Ryder, whose friendship with the wealthy Flyte family shapes his lifelong search for love. Brideshead Revisited is routinely included on ...
Dec 1, 2004 · The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the years 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 at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in ...
Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, most especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.
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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 ...
Oct 3, 2008 · Brideshead Revisited is an evocative and poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence, set in pre-war England when privileged aristocracy fell into decline. The story begins in 1925 ...
Dec 11, 2012 · Brideshead Revisited. Evelyn Waugh. Little, Brown, Dec 11, 2012 - Fiction - 432 pages. Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.
