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Another fabulous tale crafted by Evelyn Waugh. This novel is engaging, comedic, and tragic--all at the same time. While the prose flows and the vocabulary is not difficult, many adult themes occur within the novel. Waugh examines class, sexuality, and--again--the decline of "true Englishness" in England.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, and in the end, you'll be glad you picked this book up. I highly recommend it.

Kelly M. (
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One of the best "English" books of it's kind. It really shows what England was like between the wars and then after then after WWII.
The book is just wonderful and keeps you wanting to know more and more about this family even after to book is done.
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Beautifully written story regarding a young man's fascination with a British, aristocratic family from the 1920s whose widely different regards to religion pull them apart.