by Evelyn Waugh · Rba · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447300198
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«Retorno a Brideshead» is the novel by Evelyn Waugh, published by RBA in 1992 in paperback (329 pages, in Spanish).
In the midst of the Second World War, Charles Ryder, a soldier stationed at an English mansion converted into barracks, recognizes Brideshead, the home of the Marchmains. The return evokes the time when he met Sebastian, his youthful friend, and Julia, his sister, and shows the decline of a Catholic family of the British aristocracy.
This edition belongs to the Narrativa Actual collection, number 20, with a translation by Caroline Phipps. The novel was originally published in 1945.
Readers of classic novels and literary fiction, with an interest in the British aristocracy and family drama.
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.
