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Brideshead Revisited Audio Book
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Brideshead Revisited
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
Reader: Jeremy Irons
A young man's friendship with the charming Sebastian and his family begins when they are both at Oxford in 1923. Carefree days of privilege soon end, however – and as they consider questions of morality and religion, the radiant tonegives way to shattered illusions. Emma Thompson stars in the film. "Irons' genteel growl reverberates between ironic and conversational, husky and refined... [He] shines as both reader and actor... a joy to listen to."—AudioFile
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Publish Date: 08/06/2008
ISBN: 9781602834866
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Synopsis:
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This is Evelyn Waugh's outsider's account of a troubled aristocratic family. Charles Ryder, the narrator, is a dull and rather pompous undergraduate at Oxford when he meets Sebastian Flyte, a wealthy and sybaritic classmate. The two become improbable friends, and Sebastian brings Charles to Brideshead, his family estate, and introduces him into the circle of rich aristocratic layabouts who inhabit the place. Charles falls in love with Sebastian's sister, Julia, but religious objections (Charles is divorced, and the Flytes are Catholics) stand in the way of their marriage. Although strongly satirical in parts, and written with the savage wit for which Waugh was renowned, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED is a work of rare sensitivity and depth. The novel was made into a landmark 11-hour mini-series by the BBC in 1991, starring Jeremy Irons as Charles, Laurence Olivier as Lord Marchmain (for which he won an Emmy), Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain, and John Gielgud as Charles's father, Edward.
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Book Reviews:
| "It is very much a child of its time. Had it not been written when it was at a very bad time in the war when there was nothing to eat, it would have been a different book. The fact that it is rich in evocative description--in gluttonous writing--is a direct result of the privations and austerity of the times..." |
| Paris Review - Evelyn Waugh (April 1962) |
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| "Forget the Masterpiece Theatre version, however good it was; the novel is the perfect distillation of English class-consciousness and storytelling, deeply romantic, a love story anchored in the profligate 1930s and highlighted by the experience of World War II, filled with Waugh's particular blend of wit, savagery and pure English rage. It is a major work of art, far beyond the fashionable gloss that has come to surround it." |
| Salon - Michael Korda (06/07/1999) |
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Author Bio:
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Educated at Oxford, Waugh worked as a schoolteacher--a job he loathed--until his first novel, DECLINE AND FALL, was published in 1928. He served in the Royal Marines in World War II, stationed in Crete and Yugoslavia, the setting for his trilogy, "Sword of Honor". In 1930 he converted to Roman Catholicism; his "Catholic" novel, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, was published in 1945. In addition to novels, Waugh also wrote nonfiction, particularly on travel. He was married twice, and was a neglectful father to several children. He spent the end of his life in the village of Combe Florey, in Somerset and died, after going to Mass, on Easter Sunday, 1966. Waugh was an often irascible, curmudgeonly personality, but his brilliantly comic satirical fiction, dissecting the British upper classes, has been not only critically acclaimed but wildly popular; the dramatization of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by the BBC was watched fanatically by millions.
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