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Brideshead Revisited (paperback) - By Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally aired on the U.K.'s ITV network. The miniseries, like the book, lays bare the eccentricities of the young British aristocracy, concentrating upon several Oxford students. The story is told from the point-of-view of Charles Ryder (Jeremy Irons), who is sucked into decadence by the "magically beautiful" Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews). Flyte is the son of Lord Marchmain (Laurence...

In this classic tale of British life between the World Wars, Waugh parts company with the satire of his earlier works to examine affairs of the heart. Charles Ryder finds himself stationed at Brideshead, the family seat of Lord and Lady Marchmain. Exhausted by the war, he takes refuge in recalling his time spent with the heirs to the estate before the war--years spent enthralled by the beautiful but dissolute Sebastian and later in a more conventional relationship with Sebastian's sister Julia. Ryder...

Synopsis: The critics raved. Viewers canceled everthing on the night it aired. "Brideshead Revisited," in short, is a television legend. Now in a better-than-ever digitally remastered presentation, this masterpiece is available for the first time on DVD in a Collector's Edition. Based on Evelyn Waugh's classic novel set in the glittering but fading world of the British aristocracy.

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Based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh , two years in the making and the equivalent of seven feature films back-to-back, this epic drama series tells a story of romantic yearning and loss in the glittering but fading world of the British aristocracy between the wars. Winner of 17 international awards and starring Jeremy Irons , Anthony Andrews , Diana Quick , Sir John Gielgud , Claire Bloom and Sir Laurence Olivier in an Emmy®-winning role.

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Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war. In so doing, it provides a study of the conflict between the demands of religion and of the flesh.

Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece of aristocracy and romantic yearnings between the wars came to life a quarter-century ago, in one of television's best series, starring Jeremy Irons, Claire Bloom, Anthony Andrews, and Sir Laurence Olivier. Relive the epic drama of Brideshead Revisited in this special silver anniversary edition, including a new featurette, "Revisiting Brideshead," and interviews with many of the stars.

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