Waugh's most successful novel portrays a figure (and English landscape painter), in some ways not unlike himself, who undergoes a spiritual journey from his college days, viewed in retrospect from the vantage point of his role as an officer in the homeland guard at the height of the Second World War in Britain.

A Fine copy in a Fine jacket, with no flaws. One of 600 copies (of which 450 were for sale, and 150 were for presentation), specially bound in bluish-green linen cloth, in cream-tan dustwrapper printed in light brown and bluish-green, not price-clipped. 47-74 jacket lightly rubbed, spine panel toned, head of spine panel and corners chipped, not-price clipped: a very good copy in like jacket. Foot of spine faded, small bump to lower edge of rear cover, binding otherwise sharp, contents clean, short close tear to upper margin of pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Evelin Waugh, A Little Learning: the First Volume of an Autobiography, 1964 John Howard Wilson, Evelyn Waugh: a Literary Biography, 1996. Exploring the theme of Catholicism for the first time, the novel was described by Waugh as 'an attempt to trace the workings of the divine purpose in a pagan world, in the lives off an English Catholic family, half-paganised themselves, in the world of 1929-39' (Wilson, p. 191) the character of Sebastian Flyte was based on memories of Alastair Graham, one of Waugh's best friends and 'romances' during his university years.

The author revealed in his autobiography that the story 'portrays some aspects of my Oxford life' (Waugh, p.

Brideshead Revisited was written from January to June 1944, while Waugh was recovering after breaking his leg during parachute training in December of the previous year. Waugh himself repeatedly referred to this novel as his magnum opus. First trade edition, first impression, of Waugh's most enduring novel, in a well-preserved example of the notoriously fragile jacket produced to war economy standards.

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