Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh

The novel Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh, explores the meaning of love and the many incarnations it can take; love of family and friends, romantic love, and love of God. The novel follows Charles Ryder through his youth and into adulthood...

Brideshead Revisited acts as an ode to the dying English aristocracy which Charles Ryder appears to admire so much. Martin Amis asserts that the novel ‘squarely identifies egalitarianism as its foe and proceeds to rubbish it accordingly’, with...

Generally, in Brideshead Revisited, the characters are more concerned with the material than the spiritual. Most of them live in the upper class world where having high status and being wealthy and beautiful are the most prized characteristics of...

Brideshead Revisited is a 1945 novel that was written by Evelyn Waugh. During book one and chapter one of book two of the novel, readers closely follow main characters Sebastian and Charles through their adolescent years and early adulthood. The...