Brideshead Revisited

By Evelyn Waugh (Audiobook, 2012)

Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the story mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber,Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.

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- Format: Audiobook
- Price: $19.98 US
- ISBN-13: 9781619693975
- On Sale Date: 12/11/2012
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
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Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom TIME called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote sixteen novels. His short fiction is collected in The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh.