Book Review: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

My rating: 4/5 stars

This was an intelligent and absorbing read. Waugh introduces us to characters and then brings out their personalities in increasing richness. I was fascinated by the themes of morality and religion. Charles, the main character, is keen to show himself as especially moral, whilst rejecting Catholicism, yet the reader can see he is hypocritical and frankly unlikeable. Like in The Beautiful and the Damned, we see how decadence and debauchery leads to people’s downfalls, here so well visualised in the breaking apart and neglect of the stately home Brideshead itself.

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