Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Hardback Published on: 20/10/2016
Price: £16.99
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A Teddy Called Aloysius
'.............it was midwinter in Sebastian's heart': Brideshead Revisited is worth reading purely for such beautiful turns of phrase as this. If you've se... READ MORE
A Teddy Called Aloysius
'.............it was midwinter in Sebastian's heart': Brideshead Revisited is worth reading purely for such beautiful turns of phrase as this. If you've se... READ MORE
A Perfect Novel
Brilliant and nostalgic, Waugh recounts the tale of Charles Ryder and his infatuation with the fading and aristocratic Marchmain family. Set in the fragile... READ MORE
Synopsis
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.
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 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.
"Lush and evocative ... Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit" - *The Times*
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning [Coralie Bickford-Smith](https://www.waterstones.com/author/coralie-bickford-smith/2396015), these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
**View other titles in [Penguin’s Clothbound Classics Collection](https://www.waterstones.com/books/search/term/clothbound+classics).**
Publisher information
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780241284629
- Number of pages: 336
- Dimensions: 205 x 138 x 30 mm
- Weight: 450g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allGloriously decadent.
The first section of the book - I was absolutely enthralled and transported to this wonderfully realised version of an eccentric Twenties world. I just lov... READ MORE
Brideshead Revisited
The agnostic Charles enters the Flyte family's world and discovers what a spiritual conscience is from his 'free man' perspective.
Brideshead Revisited: Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain
Mature Waugh is like vintage wine to be sipped and enjoyed delighting in the nuances and sheer skill of the master. The intense and somewhat bitter satires... READ MORE
Why Not?
Why did I not read this book before? I think that there have been some mixed reviews of the books over the decades and then there was the TV series and fil... READ MORE
Or the Ghost of Time Past
A classic of English literature. A must on every reading list. A quintessential portrait of a lost era. Of a different society. Of a Time when strict value... READ MORE
Enjoyable
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but I’m very glad I finally got round to this. It’s a novel heavy with nostalgia—some of it earned, some rather self-in... READ MORE
Repeatedly readable - revisited often
I first read Brideshead Revisited when I was a teenager, after I'd seen the classic TV series. 40 years ago the first part of Charles Ryder's story and his... READ MORE