Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh(1945)
Novelc. 320 pages
“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I have been happy and then, when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
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by Evelyn Waugh(1945)
“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I have been happy and then, when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
Evelyn Waugh(1945)
Charles Ryder remembers his time at Oxford in the 1920s, his friendship with Sebastian Flyte, and his long involvement with the Marchmain family, aristocratic, Catholic, and doomed. Evelyn Waugh wrote this during World War II, in the camps and hospitals of his military service, and it is his most romantic and most religious novel. The prose is nostalgic for a world already passing; the theology is uncompromising. Critics have called it snobbish, sentimental, Catholic propaganda. It remains one of the most loved English novels of the century.