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The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece - a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire.

Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities.

At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.

©1945 Evelyn Waugh (P)2015 Hachette Audio Classics Heartfelt

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"Waugh's most deeply felt novel... Brideshead Revisited tells an absorbing story in imaginative terms...Mr. Waugh is very definitely an artist, with something like a genius for precision and clarity not surpassed by any novelist writing in English in his time." ( New York Times)
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Grace moving in human lives, the masterpiece of the 20th century, the Catholic story of sin and redemption....Unrivalled literature.

Sublime

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Irons narrates this perfectly, and it conjours his role as Charles Ryder in the televised series. Such a powerful paring: Waugh read by Irons - this is an essential download for anyone who appreciates great 20th Century English literature.

Superb narration, wonderful story.

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It is a pleasure to listen to such a great literary work read by Jeremy Irons. I was sad when it finished. Perfect.

Brilliant classic, masterful voice

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Jeremy Irons is simply brilliant in how he brings life to all the characters.

This is outstanding.

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Revisiting this myself (geddit) for the third or fourth time I loved this as an audio book. Jeremy Irons does a 'banging' job.

Marvelous

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