Charles first comes to Brideshead as a first-year student at Oxford University. There, he meets Sebastian Flyte, the son of the wealthy English lord, Lord Marchmain, the owner of Brideshead. The Marchmain family is Catholic, and Sebastian’s mother, Lady Marchmain, is . Multimedia CD. $ 1 Used from $ Enhance your purchase. Selected by Modern Library as one of the best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory. The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come Cited by: · Welcome! Log into your account. your username. your password.
Evelyn Waugh's novel, Brideshead Revisited, was a love letter to a vanishing world. In an excerpt from her Waugh biography, Paula Byrne focuses on his inspiration: the divinely decadent. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is a story of the cultivation of wisdom and even salvation. Where it has confused critics and devotees alike is in its concern with the root and not the flower, being a study of the unhappiness that is sometimes the manure for a plant whose flower blooms, if it blooms, in heaven. Brideshead, the house, and Brideshead the novel, take on certain attributes from Evelyn's later friendship with the Lygon family, who lived in a house called Madresfield which he didn't visit until And by the time Waugh came to write the book in he had stayed in many splendid country houses, perhaps even Castle Howard where the.
In Work Suspended and Other Stories Waugh introduced "real" characters and a first-person narrator, signalling the literary style he would adopt in Brideshead Revisited a few years later. Brideshead, which questions the meaning of human existence without God, is the first novel in which Evelyn Waugh clearly presents his conservative religious and political views. [25]. The romanticism of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited is so obvious as almost to prompt denial, so often has it been commented on. Waugh himself acknowledged that some of the scenes were lushly over-written, which he attributed to the grinding austerities of the war years and his nostalgic recall of better days. Evelyn Waugh cultivated a reputation for being cantankerous—he once listed some provocations as “cooking and theology and clothes and grammar and dogs”—so it is surprising to discover that he kept his equanimity about responses to various stages of the composition and reception of Brideshead Revisited, his best-known and most profitable novel and the one in which he seems to have had the greatest emotional and artistic investment.
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