Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder b

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"Originally published in United States by Little, Brown and Company, January 1946"--T.p. verso.

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Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece -- a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire.Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity."A genuine literary masterpiece." --Time"Heartbreakingly beautiful...The twentieth century's finest English novel." --Los Angeles Times

Author Biography

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

Review

"A genuine literary masterpiece....Brideshead Revisited is actually a wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story about an iumpressionable young man, Charles Ryder, who goes to Oxford in the 1930s and falls in love with a family: the wealthy, eccentric, aristocratic Flytes, owners of a grand old country house called Brideshead....Told in flashbacks from the dark days of World War II, the novel is aglimmer with the guttering candle glow of an elegant age that was already passing away."--Lev Grossman, TIME"Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement."--John K. Hutchens, New York Times"Heartbreakingly beautiful....The 20th century's finest English novel."--Los Angeles Times"A many-faceted book....beautifully told by one of the most exhilarating stylists of our time."--Newsweek

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"Heartbreakingly beautiful....The 20th century's finest English novel."-- Los Angeles Times

Details ISBN0316216445 Author Evelyn Waugh Short Title BRIDESHEAD REVISITED Language English ISBN-10 0316216445 ISBN-13 9780316216449 Media Book Format Hardcover Residence US Birth 1903 Death 1966 Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-12-11 Imprint Little, Brown & Company Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2012-12-11 NZ Release Date 2012-12-11 US Release Date 2012-12-11 UK Release Date 2012-12-11 Publisher Little, Brown & Company Subtitle The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Audience General Pages 416 DEWEY FIC We've got this

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