Brideshead Revisited [Waugh's biographer Selina Hasting's copy]
by Evelyn Waugh
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1945. First edition owned and annotated by Evelyn Waugh's biographer Selina Hastings, with the author's signature mounted on the title page. Publisher's cloth binding, spine faded, light marks to boards, internally complete but many leaves exhibit short closed oblique tears at the head and occasionally tail of the leaves - seemingly a production flaw. Mounted on the title-page is the author's signature, 'Evelyn Waugh', probably cut from a letter; adhesive paste showing through on the verso of the leaf. Ticket of the Anglophile 'Holliday Bookshop, New York' to the tail of the final pastedown. This copy was owned and annotated by Lady Selina Hastings whose biography of Waugh appeared in 1994. Hastings has annotated the text with numerous marginal dots next to the text throughout and writes thus about the novel in her biography 'There are two main themes in Brideshead Revisited, the first, that of the working out of a divine plan in the restoration and creation of faith, encompassing the second, the infatuation of Charles Ryder for an entire noble family, the Flytes. Brideshead is undoubtedly a great novel; with a fair claim to be Waugh's finest achievement... in Brideshead that he engages with the issues that lay nearest his heart.' Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1945
Synopsis
Author Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder during the handful of months following a minor parachute accident. Loosely based on Waugh’s own experiences as a student at Oxford University, the novel tells the story of Charles Ryder, a young man at Oxford who is captivated by an eccentric classmate named Sebastian Flyte and his very wealthy, Catholic family. The first half of the book is filled with teachings of beauty, booze, and witty conversation; in the second half, every one grows up and things all apart. Told in flashbacks from the days of WWII, Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures that wartime austerities denied him. While many critics believe that Waugh’s intention was to present Catholicism positively and reflect his own reasons for converting to it, many interpret the novel in the opposite light, believing that religion actually brings about the ruin of every character in the story. Brideshead Revisited is ranked 45th on BBC’s “The Big Read” survey and 80th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. It is also included in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923) as well as Newsweek’s list of the 100 best books of world literature.
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- Bookseller
- Christian White Rare Books Ltd.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7065
- Title
- Brideshead Revisited [Waugh's biographer Selina Hasting's copy]
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
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About the Seller
Christian White Rare Books Ltd.
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Christian White Rare Books Ltd.
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