Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Paperback Book

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Rent Brideshead Revisited

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: Jan 1982

Genre: Fiction - Classics

Retail Price: $19.99

Pages: 464

Synopsis

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.

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