Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board faded and worn. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure.
First published in 1945, Brideshead Revisited stands as Evelyn Waugh's most ambitious and celebrated novel, chronicling the complex relationship between the narrator Charles Ryder and the aristocratic Flyte family, centred on the grandeur and melancholy of their ancestral home, Brideshead Castle. Set against the backdrop of England between the two World Wars, the novel traces Charles's entanglement with the deeply Catholic yet deeply flawed Flyte family — particularly his intense friendship with the charming, self-destructive Sebastian and his later romance with the enigmatic Julia. Waugh constructs a meditation on faith, memory, love, and the inexorable decline of the English Catholic aristocracy, rendered in prose of extraordinary richness and elegance. The novel's tone is one of nostalgic longing, shot through with spiritual conviction, as it argues that divine grace operates even in the most unlikely and broken of lives. Brideshead Revisited remains a cornerstone of twentieth-century British literature, as resonant and moving today as when it was first written.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1949, Readers Union with Chapman and Hall
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board faded and worn. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure.
First published in 1945, Brideshead Revisited stands as Evelyn Waugh's most ambitious and celebrated novel, chronicling the complex relationship between the narrator Charles Ryder and the aristocratic Flyte family, centred on the grandeur and melancholy of their ancestral home, Brideshead Castle. Set against the backdrop of England between the two World Wars, the novel traces Charles's entanglement with the deeply Catholic yet deeply flawed Flyte family — particularly his intense friendship with the charming, self-destructive Sebastian and his later romance with the enigmatic Julia. Waugh constructs a meditation on faith, memory, love, and the inexorable decline of the English Catholic aristocracy, rendered in prose of extraordinary richness and elegance. The novel's tone is one of nostalgic longing, shot through with spiritual conviction, as it argues that divine grace operates even in the most unlikely and broken of lives. Brideshead Revisited remains a cornerstone of twentieth-century British literature, as resonant and moving today as when it was first written.