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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Penguin Essentials)
Evelyn Waugh
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Description for Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Penguin Essentials)
Paperback. 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 which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 114 x 27. Weight in Grams: 244.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
432
Publication date
2011
Series
Penguin Essentials
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241951613
SKU
V9780241951613
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About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Penguin Essentials)
A wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story
Time
The Oxford novel . . . lush and evocative
The Times
Time
The Oxford novel . . . lush and evocative
The Times