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    Brideshead Revisited
    Misdaad en straf
    The man who planted trees
    • Brideshead Revisited

      The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

      (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea?sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, "Brideshead Revisited" transcends Waugh's familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. The edition reprinted here contains Waugh's revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.

      Brideshead Revisited2018
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    • Een student denkt met de moord op een woekeraarster een goede daad gesteld te hebben, maar wordt allengs bekropen door wroeging.

      Misdaad en straf1997
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    • The story of a man, Elzeard Bouffier, who planted trees on land which was dying because of a lack of vegetation__

      The man who planted trees1996
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