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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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Evelyn Waugh No preview available - 2002 |
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