1945 Brideshead Revisited

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first Bookclub edition. 

Bound in the publisher's cloth, without the dust wrapper. 

'Brideshead Revisited' tells the story of undergraduate Charles Ryder's infatuation with the aristocratic Marchmain family, and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Set during the interwar period, this novel is often referred to as Waugh's most enduring work. 

Waugh himself had a conflicted relationship with the work he regularly referred to as his magnum opus, writing that 'the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful'.

With a pictorial bookplate to the front paste down.