Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, a NovelCharles Ryder finds himself stationed at Brideshead, the family seat of Lord and Lady Marchmain. Exhausted by the war, he takes refuge in recalling his time spent with the heirs to the estate before the war--years spent enthralled by the beautiful but dissolute Sebastian and later in a more conventional relationship with Sebastian's sister Julia. Ryder portrays a family divided by an uncertain investment in Roman Catholicism and by their confusion over where the elite fit in the modern world. |
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... hour we were ready to start and in an hour we started . My three platoon commanders and myself had a carriage to ourselves . They ate sandwiches and chocolate , smoked 20 BRIDESHEAD REVISITED.
... hour we were ready to start and in an hour we started . My three platoon commanders and myself had a carriage to ourselves . They ate sandwiches and chocolate , smoked 20 BRIDESHEAD REVISITED.
Page 76
... hours on end in the library ; now and then he emerged and I would hear him calling over the banisters : ' Hayter , get me a cab . ' Then he would be away , sometimes for half an hour or less , sometimes for a whole day ; his errands ...
... hours on end in the library ; now and then he emerged and I would hear him calling over the banisters : ' Hayter , get me a cab . ' Then he would be away , sometimes for half an hour or less , sometimes for a whole day ; his errands ...
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... hour by hour , before the fountain , probing its shadows , tracing its lingering echoes , rejoicing in all its clustered feats of daring and invention , I felt a whole new system of nerves alive within me , as though the water that ...
... hour by hour , before the fountain , probing its shadows , tracing its lingering echoes , rejoicing in all its clustered feats of daring and invention , I felt a whole new system of nerves alive within me , as though the water that ...
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Evelyn Waugh No preview available - 2002 |
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