Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is a contemplative novel in the revised memory, Faith, and Endangered English aristocratic class, pronounced by Charles Ryder, who is an army officer, who recalls his relations with the rich, devout Catholic Flyte family. Beginning with his intense friendship—and unspoken romantic feelings—for the charming, troubled Sebastian Flyte at Oxford in the 1920s, Charles becomes drawn into the grandeur and complexities of the Flytes’ ancestral estate, Brideshead Castle. Over the years, he creates a deep but disputed bond with Sebastian's sister Julia, while all struggle with questions of love, loyal and spiritual redemption. Through the memories of Charles, the novel captures the permanent power of grace and faith between the decline and social change of a privileged world.