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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)

Brideshead Revisited Paperback | Pages: 351 pages

Present Of Books Brideshead Revisited

Title	:	Brideshead Revisited
Author	:	Evelyn Waugh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 351 pages
Published	:	January 30th 1982 by Back Bay Books (first published 1945)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Cultural. India

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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.

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"Brideshead Revisited" is almost the opposite of Waugh's own "Vile Bodies"/"Bright Young Things" in that it starts off as a tragedy, or at least pretty damn close to E. M. Forster's "Maurice" territory (thus tres tragique) and ends in such a jubilant & comedic form (sorry for this mega old spoiler). It seems to me that Waugh is a master of Contrasts, & it works all too well... the book ends & the reader is deeply disappointed that it does. I practically ignored most of Seattle as I

BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDThere was once a noble house called BridesheadOf sacred and profane memoriesSeat of the last of the MarchmainsAn ancient pile with a false domeWhere painted classical deities cavortedReflected in gilt mirrors Echoed in carved marblesThe chapel was Art NouveauThe drawing room ChinoiserieAnd the whole thing flanked by colonnades and pavilionsLady Marchmain was a lady of religionPerpetually at her Matins, Lauds and VespersLord Marchmain had long fled the magnificent coopTo live

Just as Charles Ryder is seduced by the aristocratic Marchmain family in Brideshead Revisited, I was seduced by Evelyn Waughs gorgeous prose, elegy to lost youth and dreams, and the glamorous between the wars setting. The pacing is strange, but its hinted at in the subtitle: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. Memories are sporadic, apt to be uncomprehensive, subjective.Ryder, an officer (homeless, childless, middle-aged and loveless), is stationed at the magnificent

Evocative and nostalgic tale, infused with religion and (homo)sexuality, and hence passion, betrayal and guilt. The later part, about Charles and Celia and then Charles and Julia is more subtle, realistic and sad than the light frivolity of Oxford days.Hollinghurst's "The Stranger's Child" has many echoes of this (review here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...).It's five years since I last read this, but a few ideas that have come back to me by discussing it elsewhere:SEGREGATIONPeople

2.5/5When I first started reading this book, I was puzzled, lost even in my effort to find what exactly the author was attempting. As time and pages passed, I grew horribly angry with it all, and wondered if I would be able to finish and review the story without a note of fury running through it and wrecking what analysis I could present. Now that I've finished, I find myself saddened by the entire experience. With that in mind, let me explain.This story had a great deal of potential in it,



Two totally separate, virtually unrelated books with over-the-top narration and no arc. Brideshead Revisited is divided into two books that take place ten years apart from each other. The narrator/main character is almost unrecognizable from one to the other, and no real explanation is given. Is a simpering fool in the first book, and a cold jerk in the second. His main obsession in the first book is almost entirely and perfunctorily absent from the second, and vice versa with his obsession from