简介:The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels,"Brideshead Revisited" looks back to the golden age before theSecond World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuationwith the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilegethey inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by hisdoomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia,Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and socialdistance from them.