by Evelyn Waugh · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140059151
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Brideshead Revisited is a novel by English author Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. The novel follows the life of Charles Ryder, a young Oxford student, and his relationship with the aristocratic Marchmain family, who live in the majestic estate of Brideshead Castle. Through their encounters and experiences, the novel explores themes of memory, nostalgia, religion, and the decline of the English aristocracy in the interwar period. With elegant and evocative prose, Waugh creates a moving portrait of a lost world and the complex human relationships that inhabit it.
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.
