num_pages: 331
description: Many of the best English novels are portraits of families. In Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh narrates the fortunes of the accomplished but eccentric family of Lord Marchmain in a social panorama that ranges from Oxford to Venice. His dissection of the moral infirmities of 'Society' is as sharp and candid as it was in Decline and Fall or Vile Bodies; but in Brideshead Revisited, the longest and most ambitious of his novels, he also reveals a deep concern and sympathy for the dilemma of the individual.This edition includes an explanatory preface added by the author in 1959.
language: English
title: Brideshead Revisited
titlecomplete: Brideshead Revisited
characters: Charles Ryder, Lord Sebastian Flyte, Lady Julia Flyte, Rex Mottram, Anthony Blanche
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, LGBT, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 109034
places: Venice, England, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, London, England, Oxford University, Oxford, England
publisher: Penguin Books