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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316926345
ISBN-139780316926348
eBay Product ID (ePID)83207
Product Key Features
Book TitleBrideshead Revisited
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1982
TopicFamily Life, General, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorEvelyn Waugh
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight10.3 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-269830
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal823.912
SynopsisWaugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s., (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. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures 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. 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. The edition reprinted here contains Waugh's revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.