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Brideshead Revisited: Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Paperback)
Short Description for Brideshead Revisited: Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles RyderTells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of 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 recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 30 March 2000
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780141182483 ISBN 10: 0141182482
- Sales rank: 12,246
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Full description for Brideshead Revisited: Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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 Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of 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 recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.

