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Brideshead Revisted (Film Tie In Edition)

Modern Classics

By Evelyn Waugh

(76)

| Paperback | 9780141036861

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Book Description

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, artistic inhabitants the Marchmains, becoming infatuated with them and the life of prContinue

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Brideshead Revisited.

A true masterpiece.
Charles, Sebastian and Julia are some of the most finely sketched character ever created.
Brideshead holds a magnetic power hard to escape, both to the protagonist and to us.

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Cecilia M. said on Jul 12, 2009 | Add your feedback

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Saw the BBC series of this when I was growing up, but never read the book. In retrospect the TV series was a very accurate representation of the book, and the images from it haunted me throughout my reading.

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peripatetic said on Nov 10, 2008 | Add your feedback

Unfortunately, I can't connect with this author's style at this point of my life. I will give it a try at some other point.

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ariadna73 said on Jan 27, 2011 | Add your feedback

One of my favourite.

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Annabella Fu said on Jul 23, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Mostly good...

Really enjoyed the first 2/3 of the book, which compared well to the best F. Scott Fitzgerald works. But the religious conflict in the final third was dull and involved a lot of fatuous dialogue.

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keithlaw said on Sep 11, 2006 | Add your feedback