{"product_id":"brideshead-revisited-by-evelyn-waugh-9780241951613","title":"Brideshead Revisited","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvelyn Waugh's classic novel of a glittering, but rapidly vanishing, privileged world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world where duty and desire, faith and earthly happiness are in conflict; a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA scintillating depiction of the decadent, privileged aristocracy prior to the Second World War, \u003cem\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e is widely regarded as Evelyn Waugh's finest work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46494548426988,"sku":"9780241951613","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3229673482274.jpg?v=1748457568","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/brideshead-revisited-by-evelyn-waugh-9780241951613","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}