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message 1: by Stephen (new)

Stephen (havan) | 151 comments It's an odd question but I recall a book being mentioned in Brideshead Revisited that was supposed to have been authored by Charles Ryder.

The title was something like "Manors and Churches of Sussex" or some such. Can anyone tell me the full proper title? I know that the book is fictional but I need it for a quiz that I'm creating.


message 2: by Ingo (last edited Dec 19, 2023 05:48AM) (new)

Ingo (ilembcke) | 669 comments A quick check confirms it, the ebook is easily found in different formats TXT, PDF, HTML, EPub and Mobi - as it is old enough to be in the public domain (at least for me), being published 1945 as per Wikipedia. Search Wikipedia for Brideshead, there are Links to the free ebook - at least for me, with a caveat: as I live in Germany, so I cannot say for sure wether the copyright is also expired for you and wether you can legally and technically access the files.
You can search inside the file, if it is there.

Also Wikipedia states the title of the book as "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder", if that is the title you are looking for (I guess not?).


message 3: by Stephen (new)

Stephen (havan) | 151 comments Ingo wrote: "A quick check confirms it, the ebook is easily found in different formats TXT, PDF, HTML, EPub and Mobi - as it is old enough to be in the public domain (at least for me), being published 1945 as p..."

Thanks for that. I checked Gutenburg.org and didn't find it there, but I'll continue the search. The "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder" is just the Brideshead Revisited book itself with the original subtitle. In it they mention a book that Charles Ryder created sometime after the flashback events in the story and before the war-time events.


message 4: by SamSpayedPI (last edited Dec 25, 2023 07:11AM) (new)

SamSpayedPI | 2306 comments I think they were books of drawings, not books that he'd written:
After my first exhibition I was called to all parts of the country to make portraits of houses that were soon to be deserted or debased; indeed, my arrival seemed often to be only a few paces ahead of the auctioneer’s, a presage of doom. I published three splendid folios—Ryder’s Country Seats, Ryder’s English Homes, and Ryder’s Village and Provincial Architecture, which each sold its thousand copies at five guineas apiece. …

...There in great labor, sickness and occasionally in some danger, I made the first drawings for Ryder's Latin America.



message 5: by Stephen (new)

Stephen (havan) | 151 comments Yeah, I thought that as well but it still works in the context of the quiz I'm creating and I wanted to have Brideshead included. Thanks.


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