Brideshead Revisited is a wonderful novel written by the English author, Evelyn Waugh, and published in 1945. Waugh said of the novel that it “deals with what is theologically termed ‘the operation of Grace’, that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself.’ Waugh achieves this in her novel by examining the Roman Catholic aristocratic Marchmain family through the eyes of Charles Ryder, the narrator. In January 1946, Brideshead Revisited was chosen by the Book of the Month Club in the USA. Time magazine listed Brideshead Revisited within the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. In the preface to the 1959 revised edition of Brideshead Revisited, Waugh explains the circumstances under which the novel was written. Written over 6 months between December 1943 and June 1944, the novel was written shortly after Waugh experienced a minor parachute accident. Waugh writes, “It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster”. Oh dear, not a good moment to be a Ddos!