![]() ![]() If you enjoyed Brideshead Revisited, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Classics. 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. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. The edition reprinted here contains Waughs revisions, made in 1959. ![]() The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. I first read Brideshead Revisited when at college and had only hazy memories of it. Evelyn Waugh's beloved masterpeice, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Paula Byrne ![]()
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