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The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780241951613
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: Re-issue
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Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian.
'I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds'. Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world where duty and desire, faith and earthly happiness are in conflict; a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian. A scintillating depiction of the decadent, privileged aristocracy prior to the Second World War, "Brideshead Revisited" is widely regarded as Evelyn Waugh's finest work.
| ISBN | 0241951615 | | Weight (grammes) | 225 | | ISBN13 | 9780241951613
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Series title | Penguin Essentials | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9780140274103 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 181 | | Publication date | 07 Apr 2011 | | Width (mm) | 111 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Spine width (mm) | 26 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 432 | |
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