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Brideshead Revisited; The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. A Novel

Brideshead Revisited; The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. A Novel

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Brideshead Revisited; The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. A Novel

by Evelyn Waugh

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London.: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1945. First printing. . Hard. Good. 12mo. 7 1/2".. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Ownership inscription neatly penned to free front endpaper. Endpapers and page edges slightly foxed.

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Author Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder during the handful of months following a minor parachute accident. Loosely based on Waugh’s own experiences as a student at Oxford University, the novel tells the story of Charles Ryder, a young man at Oxford who is captivated by an eccentric classmate named Sebastian Flyte and his very wealthy, Catholic family. The first half of the book is filled with teachings of beauty, booze, and witty conversation; in the second half, every one grows up and things all apart. Told in flashbacks from the days of WWII, Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures that wartime austerities denied him. While many critics believe that Waugh’s intention was to present Catholicism positively and reflect his own reasons for converting to it, many interpret the novel in the opposite light, believing that religion actually brings about the ruin of every character in the story. Brideshead Revisited is ranked 45th on BBC’s “The Big Read” survey and 80th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. It is also included in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923) as well as Newsweek’s list of the 100 best books of world literature.

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Title
Brideshead Revisited; The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. A Novel
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Format/Binding
Hard
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Used - Good
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Edition
First printing.
Publisher
Chapman & Hall Ltd.
Place of Publication
London.
Date Published
1945
Size
12mo. 7 1/2".

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12mo
A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Foxed
Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...

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