Evelyn Waugh
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| Original Title: | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder |
| ISBN: | 0316926345 (ISBN13: 9780316926348) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Charles Ryder, Lord Sebastian Flyte, Lady Julia Flyte, Rex Mottram, Anthony Blanche |
| Setting: | England Oxford, England(United Kingdom) Venice(Italy) |
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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.Itemize Out Of Books Brideshead Revisited
| Title | : | Brideshead Revisited |
| Author | : | Evelyn Waugh |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 351 pages |
| Published | : | January 30th 1982 by Back Bay Books (first published 1945) |
| Categories | : | Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Cultural. India |
Rating Out Of Books Brideshead Revisited
Ratings: 4 From 89884 Users | 4353 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books Brideshead Revisited
Reread due to this beautiful penguin edition designed by Peter Bentley. Admired Brideshead much more this time round. Even the Julia half. .."I had been there before; I knew all about it." 22"I am very contrite. Aloysius won't speak to me until he sees I am forgiven, so please come to luncheon today. Sebastian Flyte." 32"The languor of youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrevocably lost." 77"Anyway, however you look at it, happiness doesn't seem to have much to do with"I loathe snobs," says Saul Bellow, "and Waugh is one of the worst sort...but snobbery and piousness?" Saul Bellow can't even. And you see his point. No one in Brideshead Revisited deserves redemption, and yet here it is, with the bullying certainty unique to converts. Evelyn Waugh (he's a dude - here's a pronunciation tutorial) converted to Roman Catholicism at 27, and here we are with one of the great Catholic novels, in no way as subtle or conflicted as the work of fellow convert Graham
********Please note - contains spoilers ************One's head is rather spinning, there are so many terribly good things and likewise so very much abject wretchedness it's hard to begin. Let us try.1) This book is the twisted story of a homosexual affair, which I was truly not expecting it to be. It's famously set amongst the upper classes, firstly in Oxford, so you get pages of blissed-out descriptions of life amongst British aristocratic students in the 1920s and how many plovers eggs they
This GR book description is succinct and to the point. It follows here: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
The elegance of Waughs writing, nay, the lyricism of his prose, never ceases to impress me. Brideshead Revisited is a book I always try to read slowly, because rushing through it would almost be sinful. Its too lovely to rush. It is also a deeply sad and nostalgic story, about a world that no longer exists the way people remember it, and the bittersweet and intense feelings one can only experiences in their emotionally raw youth.The theme of Catholic guilt and shame casts a veil over the story
Read this one years ago. I remember thinking, after reading this book, that the British were really too hung up on religion. Charles Ryder was an atheist at heart, but became a Catholic later on (more, I believe, because of his hopeless love for Julia Marchmain than because of any real religious fervour). Charles was enchanted by Sebastian's dramatics, his eccentric lifestyle and all of the beautiful things he surrounded himself with. Sebastian's biggest flaw was his heavy drinking, which he
It is difficult to encapsulate a book which strives to reach for so much over the course of its pages. I'm sure I will miss some things, but perhaps that's best with a book like this. An epic style classic, I mean. There's always something more to dig out of it.The writing style is one of the most striking things about the book, let me just put that out there. This is due to the hodgepodge nature of the thing. The beginning of the book has quite a bit of high Romanticism, of a style more
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