THE FOLIO SOCIETY

'One of the wittiest, most corrosively mocking and violently serious minds now writing English prose' – Time Magazine

Waugh wrote in his 1960 preface that Brideshead Revisited had been written 'with a kind of gluttony ... for the splendours of the recent past'. When the young Lord Sebastian Flyte is sick through Charles Ryder's window, Charles realises the force of his cousin's warning about the danger of taking rooms on the ground floor of his Oxford College. But no-one is immune to Sebastian's charm. Soon, a relationship develops with Sebastian and his glamorous, eccentric family which will change Charles's life forever. Chosen as one of Time Magazine's 100 greatest novels of all time, this is Waugh's most moving work, filled with a sympathy that sits alongside his razor-sharp dialogue and wit.