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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder

by EvelynWaugh (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $3.41
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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: Modern Reprint
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 07 Oct 1999
ISBN 10: 0140274103
ISBN 13: 9780140274103

Media Reviews
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 [written] by one of the most exhilarating stylists of our time. - Newsweek
First and last an enchanting story . . . Brideshead Revisited has a magic that is rare in current literature. It is a world in itself, and the reader lives in it and is loath to leave it when the last page is turned. - Saturday Review
Evelyn Waugh's most successful novel . . . A memorable work of art.
-from the Introduction by Frank Kermode
Author Bio
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. His first novel, Decline and Fall, was published in 1928 and it was soon followed by: Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). He travelled extensively, served in the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Guards and continued to write, winning many prestigious literary awards. Brideshead Revisited was first published in 1945. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.