Brideshead Revisited
Author: Waugh, Evelyn
ISBN: 9780141182483
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 22 Jun 2000
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
Evelyn Waugh's masterpeice, Brideshead Revisted is an extraordinary mediation on a lost world
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, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.
ISBN: 9780141182483
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 22 Jun 2000
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
Evelyn Waugh's masterpeice, Brideshead Revisted is an extraordinary mediation on a lost world
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, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.
