Evelyn Waugh
Paperback | Pages: 351 pages Rating: 4 | 89884 Users | 4353 Reviews
Present Of Books Brideshead Revisited
| Title | : | Brideshead Revisited |
| Author | : | Evelyn Waugh |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 351 pages |
| Published | : | January 30th 1982 by Back Bay Books (first published 1945) |
| Categories | : | Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Cultural. India |
Rendition During Books Brideshead Revisited
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.Point Books In Pursuance Of Brideshead Revisited
| Original Title: | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder |
| ISBN: | 0316926345 (ISBN13: 9780316926348) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Charles Ryder, Lord Sebastian Flyte, Lady Julia Flyte, Rex Mottram, Anthony Blanche |
| Setting: | England Oxford, England(United Kingdom) Venice(Italy) |
Rating Of Books Brideshead Revisited
Ratings: 4 From 89884 Users | 4353 ReviewsJudgment Of Books Brideshead Revisited
It is difficult to encapsulate a book which strives to reach for so much over the course of its pages. I'm sure I will miss some things, but perhaps that's best with a book like this. An epic style classic, I mean. There's always something more to dig out of it.The writing style is one of the most striking things about the book, let me just put that out there. This is due to the hodgepodge nature of the thing. The beginning of the book has quite a bit of high Romanticism, of a style more********Please note - contains spoilers ************One's head is rather spinning, there are so many terribly good things and likewise so very much abject wretchedness it's hard to begin. Let us try.1) This book is the twisted story of a homosexual affair, which I was truly not expecting it to be. It's famously set amongst the upper classes, firstly in Oxford, so you get pages of blissed-out descriptions of life amongst British aristocratic students in the 1920s and how many plovers eggs they
An absorbing and sumptuous eulogy for the end of the golden age of the British aristocracy. Beautifully written and with so much to enjoy: faith and - in particular - Catholicism, duty, love, desire, grandeur, decay, memory, and tragedy. At its heart there is a beautiful and enchanting story. The various characters, right down to the most minor ones, are stunningly and credibly drawn - having just finished the book I feel that I have been amongst them and known them. I have read most of Evelyn
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember. - Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead RevisitedBrideshead Revisited is the memory of a happy place that holds unrelenting charm when time has all but erased the felicity that is bound up in the innocence and exuberance of youth. Waugh writes in a prose style that is luscious and incongruently intoxicating, especially since the story
In his letter of 7 January 1945 Evelyn Waugh wrote to Nancy Mitford that (regarding Lady Marchmain) "no I am not on her side; but God is, who suffers fools gladly; and the book is about God." Nancy, in a subsequent letter (17 January 1945) commented that she was "immune from" the "subtle" Catholic propaganda supposedly in the novel. Well, I guess that I am in Nancy's camp, recognizing the excellence of this G.E.C. (Great English Classic) and in my own way fascinated by the role of God in it, I
The elegance of Waughs writing, nay, the lyricism of his prose, never ceases to impress me. Brideshead Revisited is a book I always try to read slowly, because rushing through it would almost be sinful. Its too lovely to rush. It is also a deeply sad and nostalgic story, about a world that no longer exists the way people remember it, and the bittersweet and intense feelings one can only experiences in their emotionally raw youth.The theme of Catholic guilt and shame casts a veil over the story
On the surface it's a book about two friends, the narrator, Charles Ryder, and his wonderful, but bizarre friend, Lord Sebastian Flyte. Eventually Charles befriends the entire Flyte family and it's this unusual friendship as well as the other relationships -- as they evolve over the course of many years -- which form the basis of the novel. But actually it's a story about the difficulty of being a practicing Roman Catholic aristocrat in England in the 1930s. Charles, an agnostic, doesn't
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