Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement by theNew York Times,Brideshead Revisitedis a stunningexploration of desire, duty, and memory set in the years just before World War Two.
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 Revisitedtranscends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom
Timecalled one of the century's great masters of English prose, wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels,
A Handful of Dust, Scoop,and
Brideshead Revisited,were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century. A many-faceted book....beuatifully told by one of the most exhilarating stylists of our time.
Newsweek Heartbreakingly beautiful....The 20th century's finest English novel.
Los Angeles Times A genuine literary masterpiece....
Brideshead Revisitedis actually a wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story about an iumpressionable young man, Charles Ryder, who goes to Oxford in the 1930s and falls in love with a family: the wealthy, eccentric, aristocratic Flytes, l“<
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