Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
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Brideshead Revisited

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Narrator: Jeremy Irons

Unabridged: 11 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/11/2012

Synopsis

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 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. Read by Jeremy Irons, star of the acclaimed 1981 television series based on the novel.  The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece -- a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. "A genuine literary masterpiece." --Time "Heartbreakingly beautiful...The twentieth century's finest English novel." --Los Angeles Times 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on June 20, 2010

********Please note - contains spoilers ************ One's head is rather spinning, there are so many terribly good things and likewise so very much abject wretchedness it's hard to begin. Let us try. 1) This book is the twisted story of a homosexual affair, which I was truly not expecting it to be. I......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 06, 2013

Our narrator, a non-Catholic officer based on the home front in World War II Britain, revisits a mansion he first visited as a young man and reflects back on his close relationship with a Catholic family. A non-Catholic himself, he reports to us about their habits and customs almost as if he were a......more

Goodreads review by Schmacko on January 17, 2025

I just finished rereading Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, a book I pick up every couple of years or so. This time I read it because of the new movie version movie (the one with Emma Thompson as the Lady Marchmain Flyte). As a critic, I get to see a pre-screening of the new movie on Tuesday; I a......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on August 26, 2022

I knew very little about this novel (published in 1945, absurdly well known, adapted to miniseries the year I was born) going in, and what I did think I knew turned out to be wrong. It's funnier than I expected, which surprised me, and also more truthful than I expected, which pleases me. Mostly, I......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on September 13, 2020

"Brideshead Revisited" is almost the opposite of Waugh's own "Vile Bodies"/"Bright Young Things" in that it starts off as a tragedy, or at least pretty damn close to E. M. Forster's "Maurice" terrain (thus tres tragique) and ends in such a jubilant & comedic form (sorry for this mega old spoiler). I......more

Quotes

"A many-faceted book....beuatifully told by one of the most exhilarating stylists of our time."—Newsweek

"Heartbreakingly beautiful....The 20th century's finest English novel."—Los Angeles Times

"A genuine literary masterpiece....Brideshead Revisited is actually a wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story about an iumpressionable young man, Charles Ryder, who goes to Oxford in the 1930s and falls in love with a family: the wealthy, eccentric, aristocratic Flytes, owners of a grand old country house called Brideshead....Told in flashbacks from the dark days of World War II, the novel is aglimmer with the guttering candle glow of an elegant age that was already passing away."—Lev Grossman, TIME

"Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement."—John K. Hutchens, New York Times

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