Brideshead Revisited: Booktrack Edition

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Jeremy Irons

Brideshead Revisited: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece-an audiobook that 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, Evelyn 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. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity.
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.

Great story, great performance!

I’d read this book before and watched the series. So I loved listening to this version. Great performance. Great literature.

This is the way to do it

Yes, it takes a little longe than reading it myself, perhaps as much as twice as long, but soooo worth it. I had the lovely Everyman library version and I read along while listening to Jeremy Irons read. It really allowed me to get inside the space of the book.

Pure. pleasure

The most luxurious prose performed by Jeremy Irons in a story deep as dark velvet

Beautiful and unbelievably sad

Beautiful writing, colorful and morally ambiguous characters and many deep theological questions into religion and its positive and negative impacts on people’s lives.

(Spoiler) I’m someone who reallyyy hopes for happier endings and I wish more had been done to resolve Sebastian’s life and his struggles. The darker the book got the more it sort of showed how religion completely destroyed or salvaged people’s lives and either elevated or diminished their needs to be happy in life. Jeremy irons did an awesome job as usual narrating. 10/10

Superb, Thought-provoking Masterpiece

Waugh was a consummate craftsman, and the combination of his gorgeous prose and Jeremy Irons’ performance gave it an elegiac majesty that absorbed me completely. By chance I came to the end of the book at the middle of Holy Week and I could not have asked for a better pairing. Like many others I could have done without the musical background, which I found distracting.