by Evelyn Waugh · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140008210
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«Brideshead Revisited» is the novel by Evelyn Waugh, published by Penguin UK in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Charles Ryder, an Oxford student, recalls his friendship with Sebastian Flyte and his connection to the Marchmain family, owners of the Brideshead mansion. The narrative, set in interwar England, weaves together memory, Catholic faith, class differences, and the decline of an aristocratic world.
Originally published in 1945. The work's original subtitle is 'The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder'.
Readers of classic British fiction and novels set in the aristocracy and interwar England.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
