Brideshead Revisited The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Penguin Classics
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh s novels Brideshead Revisited looks back to the years 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
