Brideshead Revisited
By - Davis, Robert Murray
Floor
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Floor 3
Published
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Twayne Publishers, Boston, 1990
ISBN 10 - 0805780920
Book Status
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1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Upper class in literature
Shelf No
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8
Call Number
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823.912 DAV
Physical Description
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xiii, 147 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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