7 Tantalizing Tales That Will Ease Your Downton Abbey Withdrawal

At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities.