Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh. Little, Brown and Company, 1945. First Edition.

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, was first published in 1945 in England, as well as in the U.S. as a Book Club Edition. This volume is the same. The novel is a sarcastic and witty sendup of the English upper classes with treatises on Catholicism, the aristocracy, and the not-so-subtle homosexual romance of the young Sebastian Flyte at Oxford University. “Mr. Waugh’s plot is cooked and calculated, and his manner is deliberately soufflé,’ writes Christopher Morley in a review. “If you need to put social serious feeling into it you’ve got to put it there yourself.” It was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present and by Newsweek as one of the 100 best books of world literature.Very fine edition, near-mint with original dust jacket covered in protective Mylar. Includes Book-of-the-Month Club News review insert.