Literary Fiction
by Evelyn Waugh
Charles Ryder reflects on his deep friendship with the aristocratic Flyte family and their crumbling estate, Brideshead, in this elegiac portrait of faith, beauty, and doomed love in interwar England. Waugh's masterpiece captures the decline of the English Catholic gentry with prose both lush and mournful. A meditation on memory, desire, and the passage of time.
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