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Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited von Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh


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Brideshead Revisited Zusammenfassung

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

A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.

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

Brideshead Revisited Bewertungen

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

Über Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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GOR012793615
9780241284629
0241284627
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Evelyn Waugh
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Penguin Books Ltd
20161020
336
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