Brideshead Revisited

The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Evelyn Waugh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2003
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-118747-1 (ISBN)

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Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize his spiritual and social distance from them.

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmain family and the rapidly disappearing worldof privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recgonize his spiritual and social distance from them.

Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903 and was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1945 he published Brideshead Revisited and he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 for Men at Arms. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.8.2003
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Classics
Einführung	Paula Byrne
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	111 x 181 mm
Gewicht	193 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
Schlagworte	Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen • Großbritannien, Geschichte; Romane/Erzähl.
ISBN-10	0-14-118747-6 / 0141187476
ISBN-13	978-0-14-118747-1 / 9780141187471
Zustand	Neuware