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Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

  • 336 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1945
  • 88 editions
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1 About this book

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.

  • Friendship
  • Male friendship
  • Relationships
  • Family life
  • Domestic fiction
  • Catholics
  • Men
  • Upper class

2 About Evelyn Waugh

Born 1903

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961).

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