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Brideshead revisited the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder, a novel

Captain Charles Ryder reflects on his time at Oxford during the twenties, and a world now changed. It is World War II and Captain Charles Ryder reflects upon his time at Oxford during the twenties and a world now changed. As a lonely student, Charles was captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastien Flyte, and invited to spend time at the family home: Brideshead. Charles becomes infatuated with its eccentric, aristocratic occupants, especially Sebastian's remote and distant sister, Julia. However, he begins to realise his own spiritual and social distance, and in turn discovers a crueler world, where duty and desire, faith and happiness can only ever be conflicting forces.

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  • "Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited"@en
  • "Sir John Gielgud reads excerpts from Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited"@en
  • "Sir John Gielgud reads Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited"@en

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  • "Captain Charles Ryder reflects on his time at Oxford during the twenties, and a world now changed. It is World War II and Captain Charles Ryder reflects upon his time at Oxford during the twenties and a world now changed. As a lonely student, Charles was captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastien Flyte, and invited to spend time at the family home: Brideshead. Charles becomes infatuated with its eccentric, aristocratic occupants, especially Sebastian's remote and distant sister, Julia. However, he begins to realise his own spiritual and social distance, and in turn discovers a crueler world, where duty and desire, faith and happiness can only ever be conflicting forces."
  • "Captain Charles Ryder reflects on his time at Oxford during the twenties, and a world now changed. It is World War II and Captain Charles Ryder reflects upon his time at Oxford during the twenties and a world now changed. As a lonely student, Charles was captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastien Flyte, and invited to spend time at the family home: Brideshead. Charles becomes infatuated with its eccentric, aristocratic occupants, especially Sebastian's remote and distant sister, Julia. However, he begins to realise his own spiritual and social distance, and in turn discovers a crueler world, where duty and desire, faith and happiness can only ever be conflicting forces."@en
  • "The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece: a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity."@en
  • "In 1944 Captain Charles Ryder travels with a company of soldiers to Brideshead. He has been there before, and the great house serves as a potent reminder of the decadent, stylish lifestyle now destroyed by the austerity of the Second World War. Charles' mind travels back twenty years to when he was a student at Oxford, in thrall to the captivating, tragic Sebastian Flyte. This friendship leads to his involvement with Sebastian's aristocratic Catholic family, in particular Julia, the eldest Flyte daughter, and has far-reaching effects on his life."
  • "Carefree days end when Sebastian's health deteriorates and questions about morality and religion are raised."@en
  • "The story of the doomed and aristocratic Catholic family of Lord Marchmain set in that "long weekend" between the Wars, is perhaps Evelyn Waugh's greatest novel. Written in 1944, the novel describes the spiritual and moral passing of an era, now re-created in Granada Television's major production in which Sir John Gielgud plays Charles Ryder's father."@en
  • "Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the Marckmain family, as narrated by friend Charles Ryder. Aristocratic, beautiful, and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline; the novel a mirror of the upper-class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s."@en
  • "Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the Marckmain family, as narrated by friend Charles Ryder. Aristocratic, beautiful, and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline; the novel a mirror of the upper-class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s."
  • "A story about the aristocratic Catholic family of Lord Marchmain, set in the period between World War I and World War II."@en
  • "A story about the aristocratic Catholic family of Lord Marchmain, set in the period between World War I and World War II."
  • "The story of a doomed aristocratic Catholic family between the wars."@en
  • "The story of a doomed aristocratic Catholic family between the wars."
  • "In 1943 kijkt de kunstschilder Charles Ryder, op dat moment militair, terug op zijn gecompliceerde relatie met de excentrieke Lord Sebastian Flyte en de andere leden van de adellijke familie Marchmain."
  • "A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's stunning, tragi-comic novel of the lives, loves and mores of the English aristocracy. The action moves between 1944 and 1923, to tell the story of Charles Ryder and his infatuation with the decadent Sebastian Flyte."@en
  • "Set in 1920's England, the story examines the wealthy Flyte family through the eyes of Sebastian Flyte's less wealthy school friend Charles Ryder, who is eventually tempted into an extramarital affair with Sebastian's sister, Lady Julia. The novel is a story of faith and disillusionment in a glamorous upper-class world."
  • "Set in 1920's England, the story examines the wealthy Flyte family through the eyes of Sebastian Flyte's less wealthy school friend Charles Ryder, who is eventually tempted into an extramarital affair with Sebastian's sister, Lady Julia. The novel is a story of faith and disillusionment in a glamorous upper-class world."@en
  • "In 1944 Captain Charles Ryder travels with a company of soldiers to Bridshead. It's a place he's been to before, and one which serves as a potent reminder of the decadent and stylish lifestyle."@en
  • "A story about the aristocratic Catholic family of Lord Marchmain, set in the period between World War I and World War II.--"
  • "PLAYAWAY. Charles Ryder's friendship with the irrepressible Sebastian Flyte and his charming, eccentric family begins when they are both Oxford undergraduates in 1923. Carefree days of drinking champagne and driving in the country soon end however as Sebastian's health deteriorates and questions about mortality and religion are raised."@en
  • "Written at the end of the World War II, this work mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war."@en
  • "This classic novel has come to symbolize a fantasy era of elegance and grace."
  • "Written at the end of the World War II, this work mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war."
  • "During World War II, Captain Charles Ryder returns to Brideshead, ancestral home of the Marchmain family. He recalls his friendship with the younger son Sebastian, his love affair with Sebastian's sister Julia, and the effect of Catholicism on each of their lives."@en

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  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Satire"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Familie- og slægtsromaner"
  • "Popular literature"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Didactic fiction"
  • "Didactic fiction"@en
  • "Historiske romaner"
  • "Unabridged audiobooks"@en
  • "Religiøse romaner"
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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "Audiobooks, Fiction"@en
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  • "History"@en
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  • "Brideshead revisited. Selections"
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  • "Brideshead Revisited"
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  • "Brideshead revisited [sound recording (CD)]"
  • "Brideshead revisited"@en
  • "Brideshead revisited"
  • "Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh"
  • "Brideshead Revisited Read by Jeremy Irons"@en
  • "Brideshead revisited the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder"@en

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