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Brideshead Revisited

byEvelyn Waugh

Who is this book for? Readers interested in classic literature, historical narratives, and character-driven stories.

Topics Cultural changeFamily dynamicsSocial classReligionNostalgiaFriendshipLoveIdentityPrivilegeTraditional valuesFamily
MoodReflective, Melancholic
HumorOccasional Humor
RomanceMajor Subplot
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. 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 Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them. "Lush and evocative ... Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit" - The Times Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. View other titles in Penguin’s Clothbound Classics Collection.

Language

en

Published on

20/10/2016

Pages

336

Format

Hardback

ISBN

9780241284629

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