Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder

ISBN-13: 9780241951613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str.

Waugh Evelyn

Opis

Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied to him by the austerities of war.

Recenzje

A wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story Time

O autorze

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.