Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waughs stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent faded glory of the English aristocracy in the runup to the Second World War.The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waughs novels Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryders infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford then by his doomed Catholic family in particular his remote sister Julia Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them.Evelyn Waugh 190366 was born in Hampstead second son of Arthur Waugh publisher and literary critic and brother of Alec Waugh the popular novelist.