Oxford · 1945 · citedBrideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Charles Ryder's memoir of the Catholic, aristocratic Flyte family between the wars. It begins in the sunlit Oxford of his undergraduate years, opens out to the vast baroque country house he calls Brideshead, and returns to the London and the faith he cannot leave behind. The map runs from the Oxford quads north to the Yorkshire house that stands in for Brideshead, with the family's town house in St James's and a youthful summer in Venice.
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