Brideshead Revisited
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Evelyn Waugh
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 into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece — a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. "A genuine literary masterpiece." —Time "Heartbreakingly beautiful...The twentieth century's finest English novel." —Los Angeles Times
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Author
Evelyn Waugh
Pages
432
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2012-12-11
ISBN
0316216534 9780316216531
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"The language is very English, not American, and obviously a bit dated. However the writing is excellent. Waugh makes you like unlikable characters who are so self absorbed and selfish. The theme is how their Catholism make them redeemable "
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Danielle Schulte