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Brideshead Revisited Paperback – December 11, 2012

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Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.

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.

"A genuine literary masterpiece." --Time

"Heartbreakingly beautiful...The twentieth century's finest English novel." --Los Angeles Times

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"A many-faceted book....beautifully told by one of the most exhilarating stylists of our time."

―Newsweek

"Heartbreakingly beautiful....The 20th century's finest English novel."

―Los Angeles Times

"A genuine literary masterpiece....Brideshead Revisited is actually a wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story about an iumpressionable young man, Charles Ryder, who goes to Oxford in the 1930s and falls in love with a family: the wealthy, eccentric, aristocratic Flytes, owners of a grand old country house called Brideshead....Told in flashbacks from the dark days of World War II, the novel is aglimmer with the guttering candle glow of an elegant age that was already passing away."―Lev Grossman, TIME

"Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement."

―John K. Hutchens, New York Times

About the Author

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

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Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
Paperback : 432 pages
ISBN-10 : 0316216453
ISBN-13 : 978-0316216456
Product Dimensions : 5.63 x 1.13 x 8.25 inches
Publisher : Back Bay Books; Reprint Edition (December 11, 2012)
Language: : English

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johnM

If you know Brideshead you will love Jeremy's reading of it

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2016

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This version of Brideshead Revisited written by Evelyn Waugh is the audiobook which is read by Jeremy Irons. I have tried to locate this version for years without luck. Then by chance I located it in a library in Calgary USA. In the UK it's just impossible to find. If you know Brideshead you will love Jeremy's reading of it. He strikes the perfect balance in his speech pattern and is able to convey disdain, surprise, cordiality and love. For me after all these years since watching it first on Granada TV back in the early eighties and having the DVD's of both the original and the Ben Whishaw version it was like hearing the voice of an old friend. Oddly I only read the book after seeing the Granada series and have re-read it countless times since, my dog-eared copy is well thumbed. To hear Jeremy read it, is like opening a time capsule, it takes me back to those bleak austere days of the three day week, power cuts, and wild-cat strikes. The enunciation, clarity of speech and impeccable diction will leave you reeling. I always find some new word to research when re-reading Brideshead and listening to Jeremy corrects my mispronunciation of Latin. If you have not heard this you are missing out. John M P.S. Hope this helps you decide.

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Jeffrey J. Ward

Among the Greatest Classics of Modern English Literature

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2015

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This is the best known of Evelyn Waugh's novels where he displays his affection for the English aristocracy and his fascination with the Catholic faith. The narrator is an architectural painter Charles Ryder who becomes close friends at Oxford with Sebastian Flyte, son of a Marquess. Ryder, an agnostic, is taken to visit Brideshead which Sebastian describes as where his family lives rather than as his home. Ryder becomes well acquainted with the entire family at Brideshead and with Sebastian's absent father, Lord Marchmain who lives in Italy. Sebastian is a flamboyant homosexual who is loved but at the same time estranged from his family. Sebastian correctly believes that his mother is trying to enlist Ryder to bring Sebastian back into the fold and to try to control Sebastian's drinking. This causes strain in Ryder's relationship with Sebastian as does Ryder's romantic attentions to Sebastion's sister Julia. A central theme of the book is the struggle Ryder has in understanding the Catholic faith of the family at Brideshead. Making the narrator an architectural painter was very appropriate for Waugh's style of writing--only a painter could see and describe so evocatively the beauty of the landscape, interior decoration and magnificence of the architecture at Brideshead.The book was made into a great British TV mini-series and into a not very well done movie. The movie places too much emphasis on a homosexual relationship between Sebastian and Ryder. This relationship is not explicitly described in the book and is in no sense a central theme of the novel. Indeed, while Sebastian is described throughout the book as a flamboyant homosexual, Ryder clearly has interests in women much to the annoyance of Sebastian.

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Brilliant

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2016

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Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Brideshead Revisited is a magic carpet for the heart and soul, evocative and powerful and eternally fresh, told with a skill and eye incomparable 20th century fiction. Read it and learn about a time and place and set of sensibilities now lost to us; read it and rejoice at what the written word can do; read it for its poignancy as Waugh reveals his lessons in the art of life, love, and literature. But be warned, when you read it, you will weep not simply for these characters come to life, but for us all.

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Tigerlily64

Faith, Love, Betrayal

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2016

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This is really a classic novel in format and may endure to be one. There is formal ornamental language throughout the book to reflect the aristocratic culture of the time. This language is certainly intentional, as is made clearly apparent in the preface. The reader learns about the English aristocracy, their manners, food, furniture, house and the grounds of their estates. The disadvantage of this type of language is that the reader’s mind may drift at times. Sometimes this requires rereading some of the paragraphs, especially in the middle section of the book.

The plot is set in a changing world in Britain and America prior to and during World War II. The PBS series, Brideshead Revisited, aired in the 1980s, and is available on DVD or download today to supplement the reading of this novel. The television series helps bring to life the characters and make them solidify in your memory.

Captain Charles Ryder and his company of soldiers are to set up headquarters at a large estate. Charles recognizes the mansion as Brideshead. The memories of his connection to Brideshead in his youth are awakened.

He was a young artist when he met Lord Sebastian Flyte at Oxford in 1923. Sebastian was very rich and bored. He wanted fun, lightness, silliness; he wanted entertainment to fill the emptiness within. He carried Aloysius, his toy teddy bear everywhere. Charles was infatuated with him. Sebastian was irresponsible but his family bailed him out. His family took steps to oversee his activities and hired Mr. Samgrass to keep an eye on him. Sebastian’s family, especially Lady Marchmain Flyte, his mother, pulled Charles into intimacy in order to control Sebastian. She succeeded in making Charles open up to her, but her attempts to convert Charles to Catholicism failed. Sebastian wanted to get away from his family; he felt trapped. He was less and less in love with Charles as Charles become close to his mother.

Sebastian drank more and more. His family, especially his mother, tried to control this, but Sebastian only drank more heavily. Charles wanted to please Sebastian and win his approval, so he gave him money when he asked for it. Sebastian’s mother coldly asked Charles to leave Brideshead when she found he had given Sebastian money for drinking.

Charles had had enough and distanced himself from Brideshead, although he still pined for Sebastian. He married Celia, a pretty woman, who took pride in his success as a painter and worked hard to promote him. Charles was attracted to her initially but did not love her. After returning from a 2-year trip to Central America where he had gone to renew his artistic inspiration, Charles showed indifference to his wife and children. When he and Celia were on a ship on vacation, he saw Julia, Sebastian’s sister. He was attracted to her because she reminded him of Sebastian.

Julia and Charles both got divorced so they could get married. However, as her father lay dying and Charles did not see the purpose of a priest giving her unconscious father, Lord Marchmain, the “last rites”, she realized that she could not marry Charles and give up her religion.

The author says the book is about faith in God, the Brideshead family vs Charles, who is a nonbeliever. The book is about “the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters”. The book seems to be more than that to me. It is about the choices we make, the paths we take in love and faithfulness.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2017

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the closest thing prose can come to poetry. like drowning in honey it is so beautifully written. read and re-read countless times, and every reading takes you through that hidden door to the secret garden. lifts the spirits in a world increasingly devoid of beauty.

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David Brookes

Lovely

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2018

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Less drab than I imagined, this post-war book had a great balance of bleak war-stuff and jazzy estate house stuff. Fancy Gatsby-style goings on and some really great characters, well-drawn and memorable. The story moves well, and seems to be powered by nostalgia, which is a big deal at the moment because we all hate the world we're living in, too. Except that schlub in the White House, am I right??

Anyway, it's good stuff. It feels more contemporary than I expected, not at all dry, and is actually About Something. Great opening, great ending. Recommended.

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Author of 'Cycles of Udaipur'

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Stiven Skyrah

Includes one of the most romantic passages ever

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2019

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Our narrator, a non-Catholic officer based on the home front in World War II Britain, revisits a mansion he first visited as a young man and reflects back on his close relationship with a Catholic family. A non-Catholic himself, he reports to us about their habits and customs almost as if he were an anthropologist visiting a tribe in the tropical rainforest. Not only are Catholics a minority in Britain, but the Anglican Church is the official state-sponsored religion.

It's a great book and, of course, it's been made into a Masterpiece Theater series years ago. There are many reviews of this work already, so just to illustrate the excellent writing, I will just say that I think the romantic episode on an ocean liner during a storm at sea (her husband is absent; his wife is laid up with seasickness) is the most romantic passage I can think of in literature.

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A Good Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2019

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I wasn't expecting to enjoy this as having watched an episode on television many years ago, I expected to be totally dull. However, it was a book club read so in I went, with great reluctance. It proved different though and after wading through the first few chapters, I became more involved with the characters and their individual situations.
Told in the first person by Charles Ryder and set initially around 30's before World War 2, the so called Golden Age. A middle class painter, Charles finds himself very much infatuated by the Marchmains and their rather privileged lifestyles. It indicates that all is not as it seems within the family. Themes of homosexuality, strong religious beliefs, alcoholism are threads throughout. I really enjoyed this book but couldn't give it a 5* because I found the beginning rather tedious...but that was probably due to me and my initial reluctance to read it.
Do I recommend it? Give it a go. You could well be surprised as I was.

5 people found this helpful

Pauline Butcher Bird

Overrated

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 9, 2019

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I came to this supposedly modern classic ready to be stunned. Instead I was bored through all the sections about Sebastian's alcoholism that went on for over a hundred pages and was never resolved. And because the book was written in 1945, the homosexual relationship between Sebastian and Charles, the narrator, can only be inferred, never confirmed. Therefore, the love story in the novel is transferred to Sebastian’s sister, his carbon copy who is a ghost-like woman only known to us as a neurotic and religious zealot. The best part of the novel occurs at Oxford University where the very camp characters do at least bring life to the page. 2/10.

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