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THE PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY BRIDESHEAD REVISI...

Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the
decadent  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. Evelyn
Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead  second son of Arthur Waugh  publisher and literary
critic  and brother of Alec Waugh  the popular novelist. In 1928 he published his first work  a
life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti  and his first novel  Decline and Fall  which was soon followed
by Vile Bodies (1930)  A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1939 he was commissioned
in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards  serving in the Middle
East and in Yugoslavia. In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead
Revisited. Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy  and won
the James Tait Black Memorial Prize  the other volumes  Officers and Gentlemen and
Unconditional Surrender  followed in 1955 and 1961. If you enjoyed Brideshead Revisited  you
might like Waugh's Vile Bodies  also available in Penguin Classics. 'Lush and evocative ...
Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit'
The Times

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