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The two have an easy banter and frequently crack jokes, showing their close relationship. During the summer holiday, Charles returns to London, where he moves back in with his widowed father, Edward. Sebastian takes Charles to visit his massive family home, Brideshead Castle, where Charles meets the rest of Sebastian’s family, including his sister Julia. As the two become closer, Sebastian introduces Charles to his eccentric group of friends, including the haughty Anthony Blanche, who is mentioned as being gay. He is befriended by Lord Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of Lord Marchmain, and an undergraduate at nearby Catholic college Christ Church. Brideshead Revisited begins in 1923, as protagonist and narrator Charles Ryder is an undergraduate studying history.

It remains widely read and taught in English literature classes today. It was adapted into an eleven-part television serial starring Jeremy Irons in 1981, and has also been adapted into radio dramas and a 2008 feature film. The nature of Charles and Sebastian’s relationship is heavily debated, but Brideshead Revisited is believed to be one of the first modern western novels to include overt themes of homosexuality. Waugh’s novel is critically acclaimed for its in-depth look at English Catholic tradition, as well as its look at the decline of English nobility and the older British culture that faded away following the World Wars.

Over the course of the story, Ryder forms close relationships with two members of the Flyte family-Sebastian and Julia. It focuses heavily on his friendship with the Flytes, a family of affluent English Catholics who live in a huge mansion known as Brideshead Castle. Taking place over twenty years from the 1920s to the 1940s, it follows the life and adventures, as well as many romantic connections, of its protagonist Charles Ryder. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a 1945 novel by English author Evelyn Waugh.