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Tuesday Morning Literary Discussion Group
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Join us for an online book group discussion of this month’s title, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
Read at your own pace and then join us at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, November 24 for a lively digital discussion. A link will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your library card one day prior to the event.
Brideshead Revisited is available for immediate download for free via Overdrive as an e-book.
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Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.
The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece -- a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire.
Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.