Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Brideshead Revisited , The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh , first published in 1945 .
Simplified: Brideshead Revisited , The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh . It was first published in 1945 .