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Brideshead revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder, Evelyn Waugh

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Brideshead revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder, Evelyn Waugh

Language

eng

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Literary Form

novels

Main title

Brideshead revisited

Responsibility statement

Evelyn Waugh

Series statement

Penguin classics

Sub title

the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Summary

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 Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them

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