ISBN  9780241951613
Autor  Evelyn Waugh
Condicion  Nuevo
Part of the Penguin Essentials series discover a beautifully designed edition of Evelyn Waugh s British classic featuring cover art by Jim Tierney I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for from his first week he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty which was arresting and his eccentricities of behaviour which seemed to know no bounds. Charles Ryder a lonely student at Oxford is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead Sebastian s magnificent family home Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world where duty and desire faith and earthly happiness are in conflict; a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian. A scintillating depiction of the decadent privileged aristocracy prior to the Second World War Brideshead Revisited is widely regarded as Evelyn Waugh s finest work. The Oxford novel . . . lush and evocative The Times.