Waugh allows his Catholicism to prevent him from writing a great book. The end feels forced and too didactic. Too bad, it was really enjoyable till the very end.

A young college student gets to know and love the Brideshead family: a rich, upper-class eccentric family. An interesting look at English society in the early to mid 1900s.

"I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long long to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out."

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

A heartbreaking book. . .

I guessed the ending of this book by reading the back cover, but I was still moved by this book. Wonderful. Classic Dickens.

BLURB
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...."
"It is a far, far, better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."

REVIEW
I really didn't enjoy this book. It had me in tears in places, and its the gloomiest outlook on life EVER!
This was one of the bleakes of the Dickens books - no funny names, no quirky characters, just the tragedy that played out in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

This book was just as good as I would expect from Dickens. I must reread it when I get a chance!

Great disappointment.