Brideshead Revisited (The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder) was authored by Evelyn Waugh. It was first published during 1945 and was published again during 1982 by Back Bay Books. This novel delves into the life of Charles Ryder during the era before World War II.Charles comes to terms with the true state of himself and his loved ones through a series of tense events involving his sexuality and spirituality. The core of this story is the development of some sort of affair between him and another young man, Sebastian Flyte, in Oxford.