Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, published by Penguin UK on January 6, 1981, is a notable work in English literature, comprising 336 pages. This novel serves as a memory drama centered on the narrator, Charles Ryder, and his deep connections with a prominent Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the narrative reflects on the loss of the aristocratic world familiar to Waugh in his youth while exploring themes of religion and human desire amidst the backdrop of wartime austerity.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of characters, including lords, ladies, and eccentrics, as Waugh delves into the complexities of their lives. The novel balances romantic and sensuous elements with comic and somber tones, offering a profound examination of the interplay between faith and earthly desires. This edition includes Waugh’s revisions from 1959 and his preface to the revised edition, providing additional context to this significant literary work.
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Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh’s familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.
The edition reprinted here contains Waugh’s revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.
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