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

Hardback

Main Details

Title Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Evelyn Waugh
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:480
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 127
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780241585313
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 27 October 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Evelyn Waugh's beloved masterpeice, now in a wonderful new hardback edition 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.

Author Biography

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.