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PublisherLittle Brown & Company

ISBN-100316926272

ISBN-139780316926270

eBay Product ID (ePID)1231098

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TopicFamily Life, Literary

Publication Year1982

Book TitleBrideshead Revisited : the Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorEvelyn Waugh

FormatHardcover

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Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal823.9/12

SynopsisEvelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea-sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, "Brideshead Revisited" transcends Waugh's familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. The edition reprinted here contains Waugh's revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.