Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. 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 Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them. Ex-lib. Library stamp on title page and school stamp on first endpaper. Graded Good using AbeBooks' guide to book conditions. The dust jacket is very discoloured, and badly laminated on both inner flaps. The book itself is wearing very thin in the page gutter on the first endpaper with a mesh visible. The spine is very slightly cocked with the fr