Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Description

The gorgeous 75th-anniversary edition of Brideshead Revisited, the novel selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times.

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

The Brideshead Revisited Read Along

Join us in a celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Brideshead Revisited. Follow the schedule below and join Little Brown for questions, discussions and more across all of our social media. Grab your copy, read the prologue and get ready to kick off our read along on November 9th.

Share your progress using the hashtag #BridesheadRevisitedReadAlong on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Week One: November 9th
Book One: Et in Arcadia Ego
Pages 21-86 in Brideshead Revisited, 75th Anniversary Edition

Week Two: November 16th
Book One: Et in Arcadia Ego
Pages 87-168 in Brideshead Revisited, 75th Anniversary Edition

Week Three: November 23rd
Book Two: Brideshead Deserted
Pages 171-256 Brideshead Revisited, 75th Anniversary Edition

Week Four November 30th
Book Three: A Twitch Upon the Thread
Pages 259-357 Brideshead Revisited, 75th Anniversary Edition

Week Five: December 7th
Epilogue and catch up.
Pages 396-407 Brideshead Revisited, 75th Anniversary Edition

Praise

"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

“Waugh’s most carefully written and deeply felt novel...Brideshead Revisited reveals his richly endowed talent at its peak...Waugh is very definitely an artist, with something like a genius for precision and clarity not surpassed by any novelist writing in English in his time.”

—John K. Hutchens, New York Times

“The book is a masterpiece: rereading it you can only gaze in admiration at the brilliant and hilarious details."

—The Guardian

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

—Newsweek