Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain

by Evelyn Waugh

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1945

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Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

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Waterstones Books of the Century (1997, No 49)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 45)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Board's List, 80)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Reader's List, 88)

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When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.

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One of Waugh's most famous books, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. Taking place in the years after World War II, Brideshead Revisited shows us a part of upper-class English culture that has been disappearing steadily.

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