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The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age 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.


Evelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College. He said of his time there, “…the whole of English education when I was brought up was to produce pros...

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  • 苗儿
    读后感 http://exhilarating.blogbus.com/logs/85011731.html2010-11-15
  • 罐装小旺仔
    Charles Ryder可能是我读过这么多文学作品以来最接近我本人的人物:抽离,克制,时刻保持理智,向上的野心和纯真的情谊混在一起,看似冷漠却用情至深、不可抑制,愿为了一瞬的golden time献上一生的追忆。最后,致他们有过的good old time。【always summer & contra mundum.】2018-02-18
  • asoholic
    徒劳 优美 伤感 Waugh2014-10-23

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