Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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.
The 165th greatest book of all time
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This book is on the following lists:
- 22nd on Top 50 Books (The Folio Society)
- 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)
- 74th on Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (Radcliffe Publishing Course)
- 80th on The Modern Library | 100 Best Novels (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)
- 294th on The Complete 500: OCLC (OCLC)
- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
- The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years (Parade Magazine)
- As if You Don't Have Enough to Read, Fiction Edition (New York Times)
- TIME Magazine All Time 100 Novels (TIME Magazine)
- 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.com (UK))
- Best Books (Fiction, Prose) : Experts Choose Their Favourites (The Book "Best Books")