The Bixby Knolls Literary Society will tackle Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" in its next meeting, Tuesday, August 9, 7 p.m, at the Expo, 4321 Atlantic Avenue.
Press materials describe the book like this:
"In this classic tale of British life between the World Wars, Waugh examines affairs of the heart. Charles Ryder finds himself stationed at Brideshead, the family seat of Lord and Lady Marchmain. Exhausted by the war (WWII), he takes refuge in recalling his time spent with the heirs to the estate before the war--years spent enthralled by the beautiful but dissolute Sebastian and later in a more conventional relationship with Sebastian's sister Julia.
Ryder portrays a family divided by an uncertain investment in Roman Catholicism and by their confusion over where the elite fit in the modern world.
Brideshead Revisited was the Book of the Month Club selection for January 1946.In 2005, it was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present."
Street parking is available and refreshments will be provided
More information is available from the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association:
562-595-0081 or by email: info@bixbyknollsinfo.com
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