Charles soon makes the acquaintance of Sebastian Flyte, an extremely wealthy, quirky, beautiful young man who obeys his every impulse, shirks his duties, charms the pants off everyone, carries around a teddy bear named Aloysius, parties like a rock star, and makes his first introduction to Charles by leaning his head into our narrator’s first-floor dorm room window and puking up several bottles of wine. Charles himself is from a wealthy family that includes his caustic father and older cousin Jasper, who advises him on what to study, where to eat, and whom to avoid in his early days at the University. It all starts at the beginning of Charles’s first year at Oxford University in 1922. Over the course of a flashback, Charles recounts his long and complicated history with the estate and the Flyte family that owns it. His troops have just arrived at their new camp, a large and beautiful estate called Brideshead Castle. The novel's narration begins in the first person with Captain Charles Ryder of the British Army (which he disdains) in the early 1940s.
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