Brideshead Revisited

A novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. The author transports us back to the golden age before the Second World War. “Brideshead Revisited” relates of a dull-witted Charles Ryder, and his acquaintance and relations with the family of Lord Sebastian Flyte, residing in Brideshead. Being charmed by his new friends, Ryder understands spiritual and social distance, separating him from the Marchmains. Besides, the book is considered to have for an object an attempt to expr