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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
by WAUGH, Evelyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1945. First US Edition. Hardcover. Book club edition (so indicated with "Printed in U.S.A." on rear flap, and unpriced front flap), dated 1945 on title and copyright pages, which preceded the American trade editions of 1946, thus making this copy a first US edition. Evelyn Waugh's brilliant novel tells of the Flyte family of England, traditional practicing Catholics in a Church of England world. Book-of-the-Month Club leaflet is laid in. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with titling and illustration on cover and spine in black. Tan jacket with Lester M. Peterson drawing of a couple lounging near Brideshead Castle's elaborate fountain. --- With prior owner's signature to front paste-down and evidence of sticker removal to front free endpaper, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Dust jacket with conspicuous area of chipping at head of spine, a couple of additional tears to back panel, else bright, intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; Book Club Edition; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); (8), 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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- Seller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 87218
- Title
- Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- Author
- WAUGH, Evelyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1945
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Paste-down
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- Book Club Edition
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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