Brideshead Revisited.

'...his most carefully written and deeply felt novel..... The brightly devastating satirist of England's twenties and thirties moves from one world to another and a larger one: from the lunacy of a burlesqued Mayfair, very glib and funny and masking the serious point in farce, to a world in which people credibly think and feel' (NY Times Book Review).

Subtitled 'The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder', Waugh's defining novel details the spiritual lives behind the facades of an aristocratic family and their middle-class friend, the protagonist.

First edition; 8vo (19 x 13 cm); slight age-toning (as expected), occasional spot or mark throughout, none affecting legibility of text, some light marginal soiling to a few leaves, else very good internal condition; modern half green morocco over green marble boards, spine in 6 compartments lettered and lined in gilt, very light wear to extremities, the occasional small dent or scuff mark, spine slightly faded, some marks to page edges, otherwise very good; 304pp.