British satirical novelist whose early work savages the Bright Young Things of 1920s England and whose later work, Brideshead Revisited, is a nostalgic Catholic meditation on grace and loss.
Decline and Fall / Vile Bodies: perfect satirical fiction of the 1920s English upper class. Brideshead Revisited: a retrospective on aristocratic Catholic England, the operation of grace, and the destruction of a way of life. The Sword of Honour trilogy: WWII seen through the lens of Catholic disillusionment.
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