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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED - EVELYN WAUGH KARTONIERT ...

Part of the Penguin Essentials series  discover a beautifully designed edition of Evelyn
Waugh's British classic featuring cover art by Jim Tierney'I knew Sebastian by sight long
before I met him. That was unavoidable for  from his first week  he was the most conspicuous
man of his year by reason of his beauty  which was arresting  and his eccentricities of
behaviour  which seemed to know no bounds.'Charles Ryder  a lonely student at Oxford  is
captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead 
Sebastian's magnificent family home  Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric 
aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world where duty and desire  faith and
earthly happiness are in conflict  a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian.A
scintillating depiction of the decadent  privileged aristocracy prior to the Second World War 
Brideshead Revisited is widely regarded as Evelyn Waugh's finest work.'The Oxford novel . . .
lush and evocative' The Times

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