Brideshead Revisited
Editorial BLACK CAT
Mainland Spain
- Publisher BLACK CAT
- ISBN13 9780316041560
- ISBN10 0316041564
- Type Book
- Pages 403
- Published 2008
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Sections
English LiteratureBrideshead Revisited
Editorial BLACK CAT
Mainland Spain
Book Details
A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book.