Brideshead Revisited (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Evelyn Waugh
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Twentieth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Social issues, England or English people, Faith, Drinking or drunkenness, Catholics or Catholic Church, Vacations, Satire
- Locales: Africa, London, England, Venice, Italy, Oxford, England
Places Discussed
Brideshead Manor. Imposing English country estate of the Marchmain family where troops are to be quartered in the early days of World War II and the location where this frame novel opens. The bulk of the novel comprises flashback memories of the house and its family of Charles Ryder, an army captain when the novel begins. Earlier, while a student at Oxford University, he befriends Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of Brideshead’s Lord Marchmain. From Charles’s first visit to Brideshead as a young man he senses the place’s importance to the Marchmains as he...
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