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 & his eccentricities of behaviour which seemed to know no bounds. Charles Ryder a lonely student at Oxford is captivated by the outrageous & exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead Sebastians magnificent family home Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world where duty & desire faith & earthly happiness are in conflict; a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian. A scintillating depiction of the decadent privileged aristocracy prior to the Second World War Brideshead Revisited" is widely regarded as Evelyn Waughs finest work."