Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder - Brossura

Waugh, Evelyn

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ISBN 10: 0316042994 ISBN 13: 9780316042994

Casa editrice: Back Bay Books, 2008

Riassunto

Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea-sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, "Brideshead Revisited" transcends Waugh's familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. The edition reprinted here contains Waugh's revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.

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L'autore:

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

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Book by Waugh Evelyn

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• Editore: Back Bay Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0316042994
• ISBN 13: 9780316042994
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 351