The most nostalgic & reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels Brideshead Revisited" looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains & the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford then by his doomed Catholic family in particular his remote sister Julia Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual & social distance from them."