Brideshead Revisited: Popular Penguins
Author: Waugh, Evelyn
ISBN: 9780141045627
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2009
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them and the life of privilege they inhabit - in particular, with Sebastian's remote sister, Julia. But he gradually comes to recognize his spiritual and social distance from them, eventually discovering a world where duty and desire, faith and happiness are in conflict.
ISBN: 9780141045627
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2009
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them and the life of privilege they inhabit - in particular, with Sebastian's remote sister, Julia. But he gradually comes to recognize his spiritual and social distance from them, eventually discovering a world where duty and desire, faith and happiness are in conflict.
