Brideshead Revisited (75th Anniversary Edition)

"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

“Waugh’s most carefully written and deeply felt novel...Brideshead Revisited reveals his richly endowed talent at its peak...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.”—John K. Hutchens, New York Times

“The book is a masterpiece: rereading it you can only gaze in admiration at the brilliant and hilarious details."—The Guardian

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