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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. First American Edition. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound, the boards are clean ; top edge greyed page edges browned. The dust jacket is worn to the extremities, the back is grubby and marked. The boards of the hardback are grey. The condition of the Penguin paperback Is commensurate with Its age. ; From the library of David Lodge. David John Lodge is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, another theme is Roman Catholicism. Two of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize; he also served as the chairman on the Booker Prize jury in 1989. Lodge has also written television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. Lodge's thesis for his MA was on Roman Catholic writers and the "two stars" of that thesis were Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene; both are mentioned extensively in his autobiography - Quite a Good Time to Be Born. There are 2 books in the lot the hardback from Little Brown and a paperback from Penguin 1957 signed by Lodge and with notes in the book and on postit notes. ; 351 pages .
Synopsis
Author Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder during the handful of months following a minor parachute accident. Loosely based on Waugh’s own experiences as a student at Oxford University, the novel tells the story of Charles Ryder, a young man at Oxford who is captivated by an eccentric classmate named Sebastian Flyte and his very wealthy, Catholic family. The first half of the book is filled with teachings of beauty, booze, and witty conversation; in the second half, every one grows up and things all apart. Told in flashbacks from the days of WWII, Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures that wartime austerities denied him. While many critics believe that Waugh’s intention was to present Catholicism positively and reflect his own reasons for converting to it, many interpret the novel in the opposite light, believing that religion actually brings about the ruin of every character in the story. Brideshead Revisited is ranked 45th on BBC’s “The Big Read” survey and 80th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. It is also included in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923) as well as Newsweek’s list of the 100 best books of world literature.
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- Bookseller
- Truffle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 694
- Title
- Brideshead Revisited
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
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