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4.00. 115,645 ratings7,147 reviews. 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 at Oxford ...
Brideshead Revisited is an example of modernist fiction. Although Waugh is critical of modernity, and modern art, the novel makes several references to modernist literature throughout, and uses modernist techniques such as realistic dialogue and a non-linear plot.
Brideshead Revisited: With Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Rooney Mara. Follows the story of Ryder and his friendship with aristocratic family, the Flytes, who live in the palatial Brideshead Castle.
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Jun 11, 2020 · Published 75 years ago, at the end of May 1945, Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited” offered not a Utopian vision of the future but a wistful dream of vanished faith and grace. In his ...
Revisiting the revisited Brideshead. Charles (Matthew Goode, from left) loves the Marchmains: Julia (Hayley Atwell), brother Sebastian (Ben Whishaw) and their palatial home in Brideshead Revisited. No love story can be wholly satisfying in which the crucial decisions are made by the mother of the loved woman; still less, when she is the mother ...
Dec 11, 2012 · Brideshead Revisited. Paperback – December 11, 2012. 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. The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly ...
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The Washington Post proclaimed it "the best series ever seen on American television." Adapted from the novel by Evelyn Waugh, winner of 17 international awar...
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