Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before the Second World War, new to the Penguin English Library The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the years before the Second World War. Waugh also wrote several travel books and short stories, and was a prolific journalist and book reviewer. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them. Waugh died on Easter Sunday, 1966, at his home in Combe Florey, Somerset.Beautiful. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. He studied History at Hertford College, Oxford, but left without a degree