Brideshead Revisited
The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
$23.64
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2011
Summary
Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel of a glittering, but rapidly vanishing, privileged world.
“I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds.”
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241951613 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241951615 |
| Author: | Evelyn Waugh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 112mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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A wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story
A wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story * Time *
The Oxford novel … lush and evocative * The Times *
About The Author
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.
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