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Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Sebastian and Julia. The novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy, Catholicism, and the nearly overt homosexuality of Sebastian Flyte's coterie at Oxford University. A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981.

“It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn.”
Part 1, start of chapter 4
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are”
Part 1, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“We possess nothing certainly except the past.”
Part 3, start of chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.”
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
Epilogue
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.”
Brideshead Revisited (1945)