Both Time Magazine and Modern Library rank it as one of the top 100 novels of the century and it was the basis for what is still one of the most popular television miniseries of all time.Ĭloth. It is the first of Waugh's "Catholic Novels" and is now a classic.
The novel speaks of a world forever changed by war, tells an extraordinary love story and vividly depicts the conflicts between traditional religion and modern life. Waugh s novel of the Machmain family was a departure in style for him and a highly successful one at that. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRECEDING THE TRADE EDITION, LIMITED TO ONLY 450 COPIES FOR SALE, ISSUED IN THE SAME YEAR AS THE ENGLISH EDITION. The jacket is complete, attractive and still in very nice condition. A very pleasing and well-preserved copy, the text-block still quite clean and fresh, hinges strong, the cloth unfaded and with very minimal mellowing. 8vo, publisher's original turquoise cloth lettered in gilt on the spine panel, In the original dustjacket. The First American Edition, frist printing, published September 1945, LIMITED TO 600 COPIES ONLY OF WHICH ONLY 450 WERE FOR SALE., printed before the first American trade edition. 47-74 jacket lightly rubbed, spine panel toned, head of spine panel and corners chipped, not-price clipped: a very good copy in like jacket. Foot of spine faded, small bump to lower edge of rear cover, binding otherwise sharp, contents clean, short close tear to upper margin of pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Evelin Waugh, A Little Learning: the First Volume of an Autobiography, 1964 John Howard Wilson, Evelyn Waugh: a Literary Biography, 1996. Exploring the theme of Catholicism for the first time, the novel was described by Waugh as "an attempt to trace the workings of the divine purpose in a pagan world, in the lives off an English Catholic family, half-paganised themselves, in the world of 1929-39" (Wilson, p. 191) the character of Sebastian Flyte was based on memories of Alastair Graham, one of Waugh's best friends and "romances" during his university years. The author revealed in his autobiography that the story "portrays some aspects of my Oxford life" (Waugh, p. Brideshead Revisited was written from January to June 1944, while Waugh was recovering after breaking his leg during parachute training in December of the previous year. Waugh himself repeatedly referred to this novel as his magnum opus. First trade edition, first impression, of Waugh's most enduring novel, in a well-preserved example of the notoriously fragile jacket produced to war economy standards.
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