Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder - Brossura

Waugh, Evelyn

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ISBN 10: 0241951615 ISBN 13: 9780241951613

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2011

Riassunto

'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.

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Recensione:

A wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story (Time)

The Oxford novel . . . lush and evocative (The Times)

L'autore:

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he travelled extensively and published a number of travel books. In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards. He went on to write a number of other books, including Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Men at Arms (1952). Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0241951615
• ISBN 13: 9780241951613
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 432