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We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. For the latter I have given my hero, and then, if they will allow me, a hope, not, indeed, that anything but disaster lies ahead, but that the human spirit, redeemed, can survive all disasters. Brideshead Revisited Character List These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Who then can I hope to please? Perhaps those who have the leisure to read a book word by word for the interest of the writer's use of language perhaps those who look to the future with black forebodings and need more solid comfort than rosy memories. The story will be uncongenial alike to those who look back on that pagan world with unalloyed affection, and to those who see it as transitory, insignificant and, already, hopefully passed. It is ambitious, perhaps intolerably presumptuous nothing less than an attempt to trace the workings of the divine purpose in a pagan world, in the lives of an English Catholic family, half0paganized themselves, in the world of 1923-1939. Log Sign Menu Plans Plans Subjects Subjects Art Art Business Business Computer Science Computer Science Education Teaching Education Teaching English English Health Medicine Health Medicine History History Humanities Humanities Math Math Psychology Psychology Science Science Social Science.

There are passages of buffoonery, but the general theme is at once romantic and eschatological. 97803162164316216449 Book Title Brideshead Revisited Item Length 9.5in Publisher Little Brown & Company Publication Year 2012 Format Hardcover Language English Item Height 1.6in Author Evelyn Waugh Genre Fiction Topic Classics, Literary Item Width 6.4in Item Weight 21. Now, in a more somber decade, I must provide them with another text, and, in honesty to the patrons who have supported me hitherto, state that Brideshead Revisited is not meant to be funny. When I wrote my first novel, sixteen years ago, my publishers advised me, and I readily agreed, to prefix the warning that it was 'meant to be funny.' The phrase proved a welcome gift to unsympathetic critics.

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