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Brideshead Revisited , The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh , first published in 1945 .. Evelyn Waugh. Evelyn Waugh. It follows , from the 1920s to the early 1940s , the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder , including his friendship with the Flytes , a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle .. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes  : Sebastian and Julia .. The novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy , Catholicism , and the nearly overt homosexuality of Sebastian Flyte 's coterie at Oxford University .. A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981 .. television adaptation of the novel. Brideshead Revisited ( TV serial )