Brideshead Revisted

Narrated by Captain Charles Ryder during the closing days of the Second World War, he recalls his intoxicating 1920s friendship with the charming, troubled Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, and the seductive pull of the aristocratic, Catholic Flyte family and their magnificent estate, Brideshead Castle. What begins as youthful enchantment deepens into complex relationships, especially with Sebastian’s sister Julia, while themes of alcoholism, guilt, faith, and a vanishing aristocratic world unfold.

Lush, nostalgic, and theologically rich, Brideshead Revisited is both a lament for lost beauty and a quiet exploration of redemption.

The Whitewolf Classic edition of this work includes the original English text published in 1945.