{"product_id":"2026200010910-secondhand-brideshead-revisited","title":"Brideshead Revisited","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark of twentieth-century English literature, Brideshead Revisited chronicles the complex and consuming relationship between narrator Charles Ryder and the aristocratic Flyte family, centred on their magnificent ancestral home, Brideshead Castle. Waugh crafts a richly atmospheric narrative that moves between the golden haze of Oxford in the 1920s and the shadow of the Second World War, tracing themes of faith, loss, beauty, and the inevitable decay of a privileged world. With prose of exceptional elegance, the novel presents a profound meditation on Roman Catholicism and the gravitational pull it exerts over the Flyte family — and ultimately over Charles himself. Suffused with nostalgia and moral complexity, it stands as Waugh's most personal and celebrated work, illustrating both the seduction and the tragedy of a vanishing English aristocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956118663387,"sku":"2026200010910-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dc4ef12c-315d-4c91-89c3-241bfe7a4626.png?v=1783497932","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010910-secondhand-brideshead-revisited","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}