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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Name: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780141182483

Evelyn Waugh

30/03/2000
Penguin Classics

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder par Evelyn Waugh

Résumé

Evelyn Waugh's beloved masterpiece, with an introduction by Paula Byrne 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 Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them. 'Lush and evocative ... Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit' The Times