Brideshead Revisited

By Evelyn Waugh

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Brideshead Revisited is a 1945 novel by British writer Evelyn Waugh. It was adapted into a celebrated 1981 television series starring Jeremy Irons and a 2008 film. Charles Ryder, an army officer in World War II, finds himself at Brideshead, a country house he once knew well. He remembers his friendship at Oxford with Sebastian Flyte, son of an aristocratic Catholic family, his love for Sebastian's sister Julia, and the family's decline and faith.

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