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        Brideshead Revisited


        setting

        Brideshead, England

        time

        1923-1943

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1945

        page count

        351

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Charles Ryder, Marchmain family

        Rip's impressions

        Thoughtful and moving, this is Waugh at his very very best. Not a humorous read.

        first line

        "I have been here before," I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, when the ditches were creamy with meadowsweet and the air heavy with all the scents of summer; it was a day of peculiar splendour, and though I ad been there so often, in so many moods, it was to that first visit that my heart returned on this, my latest.

        last lines

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