![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you enjoyed Brideshead Revisited, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Classics. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Charles’s early life at university reflects the post-war years of the 1920s, in which British society was recovering from the enormous loss of life and huge cultural upheaval caused by World War I. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called 'Evelyn Waughs finest achievement' by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of. Brideshead Revisited is set in the period between the end of World War I in 1918 and the beginning of World War II in 1939. Evelyn Waugh's beloved masterpeice, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Paula Byrne ![]()
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