A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waughs classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the runup to the Second World WarThe most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waughs novels Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War It tells the story of Charles Ryders infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford then by his doomed Catholic family in particular his remote sister Julia Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from themLush and evocative Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spiritThe Times
