The novel Waugh thought of as his magnum opus, it is the story of the intense entanglement of a young, middle-class Englishman, Charles Ryder, with a wealthy, eccentric Anglo-Catholic family, the Marchmains: in particular, with Sebastian, the flamboyant young man Charles meets at Oxford in the 1920s and Sebastian’s sister Julia, who will become the great and unrequited love of Charles’s life. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles RyderĮvelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama of extraordinary richness and depth. A scintillating depiction of the decadent, privileged aristocracy prior to the Second World War, Brideshead Revisited is widely regarded as Evelyn Waugh's finest work. 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. Read more eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds.' Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Part of the Penguin Essentials series, discover a beautifully designed edition of Evelyn Waugh's British classic featuring cover art by Jim Tierney 'I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. But he also discovers a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian.
Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants.
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte.
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