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Brideshead Revisited Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Brideshead Revisited Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Author:Evelyn Waugh As a comic writer, satirist, master of English prose, Evelyn Waugh has been admired more than any other novelist of his generation. Of his many achievements BRIDESHEAD REVISITED is most acclaimed. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED is the story of the aristocratic Marchmain family. Rich, beautiful and fatally charming, they struggle with inherited weariness,... more » generational fatigue. Sebastian and Julia, of the youngest generation, are vivid and palpable. Their pain is ours, their dilemmas engage us and we share in their fate. The novel, a symbol of England and her decline, mirrors upper-class decadence at Oxford in the 1920s, the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s. It has become shorthand for a fantasy era of titled elegance, dead-end hedonism and fatuous wit.« less