The enduring fascination that has evolved around Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited has been extraordinary since it was first published in 1945. The story of Sebastian Flyte, the pampered and dissolute aristocrat, and his strangely aloof and unemotional family, caused shockwaves among the ruling elite. It was seen as shocking as it shone a spotlight on a world of an aristocracy that was in decline and crumbling.
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