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Title	:	Brideshead Revisited
Author	:	Evelyn Waugh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 351 pages
Published	:	January 30th 1982 by Back Bay Books (first published 1945)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Cultural. India

Brideshead Revisited Paperback | Pages: 351 pages

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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.

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Original Title:	Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
ISBN:	0316926345 (ISBN13: 9780316926348)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Charles Ryder, Lord Sebastian Flyte, Lady Julia Flyte, Rex Mottram, Anthony Blanche
Setting:	England Oxford, England(United Kingdom) Venice(Italy)

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********Please note - contains spoilers ************One's head is rather spinning, there are so many terribly good things and likewise so very much abject wretchedness it's hard to begin. Let us try.1) This book is the twisted story of a homosexual affair, which I was truly not expecting it to be. It's famously set amongst the upper classes, firstly in Oxford, so you get pages of blissed-out descriptions of life amongst British aristocratic students in the 1920s and how many plovers eggs they

Read this one years ago. I remember thinking, after reading this book, that the British were really too hung up on religion. Charles Ryder was an atheist at heart, but became a Catholic later on (more, I believe, because of his hopeless love for Julia Marchmain than because of any real religious fervour). Charles was enchanted by Sebastian's dramatics, his eccentric lifestyle and all of the beautiful things he surrounded himself with. Sebastian's biggest flaw was his heavy drinking, which he

Two totally separate, virtually unrelated books with over-the-top narration and no arc. Brideshead Revisited is divided into two books that take place ten years apart from each other. The narrator/main character is almost unrecognizable from one to the other, and no real explanation is given. Is a simpering fool in the first book, and a cold jerk in the second. His main obsession in the first book is almost entirely and perfunctorily absent from the second, and vice versa with his obsession from

Just as Charles Ryder is seduced by the aristocratic Marchmain family in Brideshead Revisited, I was seduced by Evelyn Waughs gorgeous prose, elegy to lost youth and dreams, and the glamorous between the wars setting. The pacing is strange, but its hinted at in the subtitle: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. Memories are sporadic, apt to be uncomprehensive, subjective.Ryder, an officer (homeless, childless, middle-aged and loveless), is stationed at the magnificent

'"Light one for me, would you?"It was the first time in my life that anyone had asked this of me, and as I took the cigarette from my lips and put it in hers, I caught a thin bat's squeak of sexuality, inaudible to anyone but me.'This book hit me, hard. I read it for a course in 'Catholic Literature' which was an excuse for my favorite professor to teach a small group of students about his all-time favorite books. He made up the name so he could teach it as a theology/literature course. We read

Evocative and nostalgic tale, infused with religion and (homo)sexuality, and hence passion, betrayal and guilt. The later part, about Charles and Celia and then Charles and Julia is more subtle, realistic and sad than the light frivolity of Oxford days.Hollinghurst's "The Stranger's Child" has many echoes of this (review here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...).It's five years since I last read this, but a few ideas that have come back to me by discussing it elsewhere:SEGREGATIONPeople

It is difficult to encapsulate a book which strives to reach for so much over the course of its pages. I'm sure I will miss some things, but perhaps that's best with a book like this. An epic style classic, I mean. There's always something more to dig out of it.The writing style is one of the most striking things about the book, let me just put that out there. This is due to the hodgepodge nature of the thing. The beginning of the book has quite a bit of high Romanticism, of a style more