The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmain family and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recgonize his spiritual and social distance from them.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
I am not I: thou art not he or she:
they are not they
E.W.
CONTENTS:
Preface
Prologue
Book One: ET IN ARCADIA EGO
Chapter One: I meet Sebastian Flyte - and Anthony Blanche - I visit Brideshead for the first time
Chapter Two: My cousin Jasper’s Grand Remonstrance - a charm - Sunday morning in Oxford
Chapter Three: My father at Home - Lady Julia Flyte
Chapter Four: Sebastian at Home - Lord Marchmain abroad warning against
Chapter Five: Autumn in Oxford - dinner with Rex Mottram and supper with Boy Mulcaster - Mr Samgrass - Lady Marchmain at Home - Sebastian contra mundum
Book Two: BRIDESHEAD DESERTED
Chapter One: Samgrass revealed - I take leave of Brideshead - Rex revealed
Chapter Two: Julia and Rex
Chapter Three: Mulcaster and I in defence of our country - take leave of Marchmain House
Book Three: A TWITCH UPON THE THREAD
Chapter One: Orphans of the Storm
Chapter Two: Private view - Rex Mottram at Home
Chapter Three: The fountain
Chapter Four: Sebastian contra mundum Sebastian abroad - I
Chapter Five: Lord Marchmain at Home - death in the Chinese drawing-room – the purpose revealed
Epilogue: BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
To LAURA
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