Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder -- Evelyn Waugh, Hardcover

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.
The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece -- a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire.
Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.
A genuine literary masterpiece. --Time
Heartbreakingly beautiful...The twentieth century's finest English novel. --Los Angeles Times


Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 12/11/2012
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780316216449

About the Author
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.