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Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh · 1945

Classics · ranked #36 in category

Charles Ryder, a poor Oxford student, is drawn into the wealthy Catholic Flyte family through his friendship with the charming Sebastian, and into their sumptuous country house. Waugh's elegiac novel — told in retrospect by an ageing Ryder — traces the Flyte family's decline and Charles's reluctant confrontation with religious faith, loss and the vanished world of the English Catholic aristocracy.

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Category
Classics
First published
1945 · 1940s
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Standing
Essential Read

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