![]() ![]() But he gradually comes to recognize his spiritual and social distance from them, eventually discovering a world where duty and desire, faith and happiness are in conflict. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them and the life of privilege they inhabit in particular, with Sebastian's remote sister, Julia. Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. The edition reprinted here contains Waugh' s revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition. ![]() At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, 'Brideshead Revisited' transcends Waugh' s familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea?sures denied him by wartime austerities in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh' s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. ![]()
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