by Evelyn Waugh · PENGUIN BOOKS LTD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141182483
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Brideshead Revisited is a novel by Evelyn Waugh that tells the story of Charles Ryder and his relationship with the aristocratic Marchmain family in interwar England. Through their encounters at Oxford and at the majestic Brideshead estate, the novel explores themes of love, faith, memory, and the decline of the English nobility. With elegant and evocative prose, Waugh portrays a world of privilege and traditions in a time of profound social and cultural change.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
