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Evelyn Waugh "Brideshead Revisited" Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/Notes [Sealed]
Evelyn Waugh "Brideshead Revisited" Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/Notes [Sealed]
Evelyn Waugh "Brideshead Revisited" Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/Notes [Sealed]
Evelyn Waugh "Brideshead Revisited" Leather Bound Collector's Edition w/Notes [Sealed]
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Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.


Easton Press, Norwalk CT. 2000. Evelyn Waugh "Brideshead Revisited". Luxuriously bound in burgundy full genuine leather with gilt stamping, all edges gilded, with moire endpapers, and gold silk placekeeper. First Edition Thus. Limited Collector's Edition.

One of an unspecified number of copies sold to subscribers to the publisher's Great Books of the 20th Century series.  No dust-jacket as issued. Very Fine. Sealed. 351 pages. Includes color illustrations by A. Christopher Simon. Publisher's prospectus leaf laid in.

Basis for two cinematic adaptations: The first, starring Anthony Andrews and Jeremy Irons [BBC miniseries, 1981], and the second, starring Matthew Goode and Ben Whishaw [BBC films, 2008]. Waugh's best known work.

 

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, most especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Sebastian and Julia. The novel explores themes including Catholicism and nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy. A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981.


About The Author

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (8 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.

Waugh was the son of a publisher, educated at Lancing College and then at Hertford College, Oxford. He worked briefly as a schoolmaster before he became a full-time writer. As a young man, he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends and developed a taste for country house society. He travelled extensively in the 1930s, often as a special newspaper correspondent; he reported from Abyssinia at the time of the 1935 Italian invasion. He served in the British armed forces throughout the Second World War, first in the Royal Marines and then in the Royal Horse Guards. He was a perceptive writer who used the experiences and the wide range of people whom he encountered in his works of fiction, generally to humorous effect. Waugh's detachment was such that he fictionalised his own mental breakdown which occurred in the early 1950s.

Waugh converted to Catholicism in 1930 after his first marriage failed. His traditionalist stance led him to strongly oppose all attempts to reform the Church, and the changes by the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) greatly disturbed his sensibilities, especially the introduction of the vernacular Mass. That blow to his religious traditionalism, his dislike for the welfare state culture of the postwar world, and the decline of his health all darkened his final years, but he continued to write. He displayed to the world a mask of indifference, but he was capable of great kindness to those whom he considered his friends. After his death in 1966, he acquired a following of new readers through the film and television versions of his works, such as the television serial Brideshead Revisited (1981).

 

Reviews

"A many-faceted book....beautifully told by one of the most exhilarating stylists of our time."―Newsweek

"Heartbreakingly beautiful....The 20th century's finest English novel."―Los Angeles Times

"A genuine literary masterpiece....Brideshead Revisited is actually a wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story about an iumpressionable young man, Charles Ryder, who goes to Oxford in the 1930s and falls in love with a family: the wealthy, eccentric, aristocratic Flytes, owners of a grand old country house called Brideshead....Told in flashbacks from the dark days of World War II, the novel is aglimmer with the guttering candle glow of an elegant age that was already passing away."―Lev Grossman, TIME

"Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement."―John K. Hutchens, New York Times

 

Features

Includes the classic Easton Press qualities:

* Premium Leather
* Silk Moire Endleaves
* Distinctive Cover Design
* Hubbed Spine, Accented in Real 22KT Gold
* Satin Ribbon Page Marker
* Gilded Page Edges
* Long-lasting, High Quality Acid-neutral Paper
* Smyth-sewn Pages for Strength and Durability
* Beautiful Illustrations

 

VERY FINE GUARANTEED. Sealed without any visible flaws. A wonderful bright clean copy free of any markings, writings, or stamps. Sharp corners that are not bumped. Unread book with square and tight spine. No attached bookplate or indication of any removed.
Publisher:
Easton Press
Edition:
Limited Edition
Binding:
Full Genuine Leather
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
Title:
Brideshead Revisited
Publication Date:
2000