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Brideshead Revisited Paperback – December 11, 2012

by Evelyn Waugh (Author)

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The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece-a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire.

Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.

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A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

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In this classic tale of British life between the World Wars, Waugh parts company with the satire of his earlier works to examine affairs of the heart. Charles 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. Although Waugh was considered by many to be more successful as a comic than as a wistful commentator on human relationships and faith, this novel was made famous by a 1981 BBC TV dramatization. Irons's portrayal of Ryder catapulted Irons to stardom, and in this superb reading his subtle, complete characterizations highlight Waugh's ear for the aristocratic mores of the time. Fervent Anglophiles will be thrilled by this excellent rendition of a favorite; Irons's reading saves this dinosaur from being suffocated by its own weight.

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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (December 11, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316216453
ISBN-13: 978-0316216456
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
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Average Customer Review: 408 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1073 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Classics
- #2822 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary

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Brideshead: The Forerunner of Downton Abby

ByPam Gardenon March 30, 2013

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I was somewhat reluctant to purchase the book after I learned that this edition was abridged from the original manuscript, but if that were the case, it did not hinder the story or the development of the characters in my opinion. Everything about the novel drips with the aristocratic style and language of pre-war England. I'm a great fan of the PBS series Downton Abby, but this is for me, the real deal, none of it dumbed down for television viewing by Americans. Charles Ryder, is the aloof narrator, who tells his story over more than a decade, from young Oxford student who falls in love with the beautiful Lord Sabastian Flyte, and with his entire family and their ancestral home, Brideshead, and later through an adulterous affair with Sebastian's younger sister, Lady Julia. Charles' remoteness, presumably the outcome of having been raised motherless and by a father who can hardly bear to have him in the same house, allows Charles to observe everything and everyone around him without becoming overwhelmed. Other characters, some highly developed, drift in and out of the story, some delightfully quirky, some sweetly charming, some sadly banal, all necessary to the understanding of the changing times. I'm one who prefers to have the ends tied together, but this is Evelyn Waugh's story, and he leaves us a cast of characters whose lives can only be conjectured in the aftermath of two world wars, the dismantling of country houses, and of a privileged way of life.

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Failed Kindle Production

ByJeffCon January 30, 2017

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Don't buy Kindle edition. Good story, lousey Kindle production. Sentence breaks; paragraph breaks in wrong place; a mish mash of hyphenations destroy any pleasure one gets from the story itself.

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Wonderfully Topical Look at Moral Standards

Bystephen a. ernston April 28, 2017

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A well known classic about the conflict between gay men, asocial norms and religion. The story is just as revelant today as it was when written.

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Truly excellent book even though it's a bit dark. Complex characters facing social constraints of their era.

ByPink Mollyon January 23, 2016

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Truly excellent book even though it's a bit dark. It delves into characters who are in conflict with their choices, who they innately are, and the lives they are living in the context of the time in which they are living. I imagine for its day, it was a boundary breaking book. However, I read somewhere that Waugh had regrets years after writing it . . . apparently he was experiencing a personal crisis and felt it came through in the book and wished he'd kept some things back . . . need to find that article & reread . . . .

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Visit Once But No Need to Revisit

ByStephen J. Flachsbarton August 11, 2016

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Brideshead is very readable --Waugh is a master wordsmith who uses fantastic extended metaphors. Still, the main character, the narrator, is oddly devoid of personality, and the seeming "bromance" between him and Sebastian, is, well, disappointing in the end. Also, to a 21st Century reader, the theme of "hopeful atheism" may be rather outdated. Still, a lover of the classics will at least like reading it on a page by page basis.

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return to a great piece of literature..........

ByDiana Langstonon August 21, 2017

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I read the last page, and turned to the first page to begin rereading, it is such a pleasure, reading Evelyn Waugh's beautiful language and engaging story, takes time and reflection, but you are well rewarded.

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A Good Re-read

ByAmazon Customeron March 27, 2013

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Vantage point is everything in reading. I read Brideshead Revisited in my teens to check it off of a college reading list and it didn't leave much of an impression. Reading it some 40 years later I found many reflection-worthy ideas and images. I suppose that teens don't have much of a concept of time and redemption and these seemed to me to be the overarching themes of the book as lost souls flounder and waste their lives. Mrs. Marchmain was the only character leading a blameless (or at least more worthy) life and she was demonized; a lesson on fairness. Still, the turn of the phrase and the lush descriptions make this book a candidate for a second look.

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All roads lead to faith

ByB. Wilfongon July 22, 2010

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"Brideshead Revisited" is a novel that can be read on so many levels. It is peopled with real characters that leap of the page in all of their complexity, it is a fervent convert's exuberant praise to his recently realized God, it is a glimpse of the fading aristocracy of England, and it is a story of a few people and their journey to find their faith and proper place in the world.
This book is vastly different from Waugh's satirical earlier works. There is still satire and humor in this text, but it is dryer and less central to the plot than in some of his previous novels. Also, unlike his previous efforts the characters in this novel are not caricature, but well developed human individuals. It is also rather episodic in plot and we follow the characters from their late teens to early thirties, a rather formative time in one's life.
I think that reading this novel will be a fuller experience if the reader has a religious background, and some personal experience with faith. But it is not necessary to enjoying (and getting something) from the text.
The novel deals with a close circle of friends, and depicts how they all in their own ways come to God. I feel that Mr. Waugh was trying to write a great novel of faith (my personal opinion) and to that extent I think he left religion, and the Catholic Church in particular, open to some criticism, which I don't think was his intent. However, one could read the same sections that I think expose the weakness of the church, and see them as plot details that strengthen the argument for faith. Waugh was much smarter than I, and I am going to assume that was his goal. What makes the text so layered is that one can read the novel and see a great testament to God and Church, and others can read it and just as easily argue for the destructive power of religion on individuals. To me, that is one of the greatest assets of "Brideshead Revisited".
This novel got under my skin, in a good way, and has been knocking around in my head since I finished. To me, that is high praise. I will be revisiting this text again. Probably again, and again...
Read it with a group of friends, there will be lots to digest, and the vastness of reactions this novel will be sure to engender will make the process all the more enjoyable and richer.

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Elegant writing style. Interesting characters and setting.thoroughly enjoyed this glimpse into the British aristocracy. I recommend to any reader who studies class issues.

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Interesting, loved the ending. Cruel justice.

Interesting study of the times. Marriage, manners, and morals are what novels in that time are generally about.Read more

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Brideshead a classic.

Beautiful prose. Brideshead Revisited truly stands the test of time. I love "discovering" classic literature that for some reason has slipped under my radar.Read more

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I've probably read this book ten times and yet I always find something new and so beautifully written in one of Waugh's sentences.Read more

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