Books : Brideshead Revisited: Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780141182483
ISBN number: 0141182482
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: March 30, 2000
Publishing house: Penguin Classics
Sale Popularity Level: 422455
Studio: Penguin Classics
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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 very 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.
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The purchase of Brideshead Revisited is one of sure investments in your library. You will revisit it very often because it is one of the books that keep you in their thrall forever. Actually, I have a copy in my desk in the office and pick it up to read a few pages when my students are late for meeting.
This is a book which can be read in many ways - most of which open up a new perspective on its contents and some of which may help you understand yourself and those you choose to share it with. It may be read as a Christian treatise (Waugh took this quite seriously) and a memoir of studies at Oxford in the 1920s. A story of a misplaced homosexual affection and story of decline of British aristocracy. Whichever way you choose you will not be disappointed.
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