| Front | the Brideshed Revisited |
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| Back | novel Evelyn Waugh 1945 this work marked a departure from Waugh's earlier satirical works the hero, Ryder, billeted at Brideshed during the war, recalls his past experiences there as a guest for the Marchmain, a great roman Catholic family. his acquaintance with them begins at Oxford, where he is dazzled by the good books and whimsically of Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of the Marquis of marchmain. Lord marchmain desert the family to live with his mistress Sebastian holds himself aloof from the family near the end of novel almost every character returns to his faith the author States that the novel is ' an attempt to trace the workings of the divine purpose in a pagan world'. but he also confessed that it was infused with a kind of gluttony , for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language, qualities which have given rise to sharp disagreement about the novel's worth |
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