Brideshead Revisited
By Evelyn Waugh
(Everyman's Library, Hardcover, 9780679423003, 368pp.)
Publication Date: October 26, 1993
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover,
Categories: Classics
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh’s familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.
The edition reprinted here contains Waugh’s revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.
“Waugh’s most deeply felt novel . . . Brideshead Revisited tells an absorbing story in imaginative terms . . . Mr. Waugh is very definitely an artist, with something like a genius for precision and clarity not surpassed by any novelist writing in English in his time.” –New York Times
“A many-faceted book . . . Beautifully [written] by one of the most exhilarating stylists of our time.” –Newsweek
“First and last an enchanting story . . . Brideshead Revisited has a magic that is rare in current literature. It is a world in itself, and the reader lives in it and is loath to leave it when the last page is turned.” –Saturday Review
“Evelyn Waugh’s most successful novel . . . A memorable work of art.”
–from the Introduction by Frank Kermode
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