Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
The novel is a nostalgic story about the narrator's involvement with the Flyte family, British aristocrats living in a grand mansion called Brideshead. The story explores themes of faith, love, and the decline of the British aristocracy, primarily through the narrator's relationships with the family's Catholic faith and his complicated friendship with the family's son and his love for the daughter. The novel is set in the backdrop of the time period between the two World Wars.
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- Published
- 1945
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 300-400
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- Retorno A Brideshead
- Reviver O Passado Em Brideshead
- Ritorno A Brideshead
- Возвращение в Брайдсхед
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- 19th on The Triangle’s 100 Best (The Publishing Triangle)
- 22nd on Top 50 Books (The Folio Society)
- 23rd on Taking off the Reading Gloves (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
- 40th on 100 Must-Read Classics, as Chosen by our Readers (Penguin (UK))
- 45th on The Big Read (BBC)
- 47th on The 50 best books of the past 100 years (The Times)
- 49th on Waterstone's Books of the Century (LibraryThing)
- 55th on In Which These Are the 100 Greatest Novels (ThisRecording.com)
- 61st on The 100 Greatest Novels (greatbooksguide.com)
- 73rd on Edmonton's Top 100 (Edmonton Journal)
- 74th on Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (Radcliffe Publishing Course)
- 75th on Readers’ Top 100 Novels Of All Time (Guardian)
- 80th on The Modern Library | 100 Best Novels (Modern Library)
- 88th on The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Readers' List (The Modern Library)
- 95th on My Favourite Book - Australian Big Read (Australian Big Read)
- 111th on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100)
- 119th on Books Of The Century (Library Journal)
- 227th on Our Users' Honorable Mention Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
- 294th on The Complete 500: OCLC (OCLC)
- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
- 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (UK))
- 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die (BBC Radio Oxford)
- 100 Greatest Books of All Time (Steve Donoghue)
- 125 Books We Love for Adults (NY Public Library)
- 150 Great Reads (The Spokesman-Review Spokane Chronicle )
- 501 Must-Read Books (LibraryThing)
- As if You Don't Have Enough to Read, Fiction Edition (New York Times)
- Best Books (Fiction, Prose) : Experts Choose Their Favourites (The Book "Best Books")
- Nancy Pearl's 100 Good Reads, Decade by Decade (Book Lust (Book))
- Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 (Anthony Burges (Book))
- The 100 Best Novels Of All Time (Runners-Up) (The Guardian)
- The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years (Parade Magazine)
- The Great Books Podcast from John J. Miller (The National Review )
- TIME Magazine All Time 100 Novels (TIME Magazine)