Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Aegitas
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2024-06-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0369401263

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, most especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Sebastian and Julia. The novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy, Catholicism, and the nearly overt homosexuality of Sebastian Flyte and s coterie at Oxford University. A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981.

Mad World

Mad World
Author: Paula Byrne
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0060881305

"A terrifically engaging and original biography of Evelyn Waugh and the family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED"--Provided by publisher.