![]() From his early satires, like Decline and Fall, to his more serious works, like Brideshead Revisited, Waugh is beloved by both. ![]() Told in flashbacks from the dark days of WWII, Brideshead is aglimmer with the guttering-candle glow of an elegant age that was already passing away. Evelyn Waugh was one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century. In the second half every one grows up and everything goes spectacularly to smash. In the first half of the book the exquisite, hilariously fey Sebastian Flyte, who is Charles’s classmate, teaches the young man about beauty, booze and witty conversation. ![]() Though it’s saddled with a faded doily of a title, Brideshead Revisited is actually a wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story about an impressionable young man, Charles Ryder, who goes to Oxford in the 1930’s and falls in love with a family: the wealthy, eccentric, aristocratic Flytes, owners of a grand old country house called Brideshead. Once and only once in his career the bitter, urbane, howlingly funny satirist Evelyn Waugh screwed up all his nerve and his talent and produced a genuine literary masterpiece. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. ![]()
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