Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)
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Brideshead Re-Revisited 14 (2023)
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would you believe me if i told you that deciding which of them would be charles and which would be sebastian was the most time consuming part of this
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What kind of books by Dark Academia do you suggest to me? At the moment I’m on Tolstoj but I wanna to know much
The Secret History by Donna Tartt anything by Donna Tartt (praying we get another book in the next 5 years)
Maurice by E. M. Forester
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Patrick Melrose series by Edward St Aubyn
Confessions by Kanae Minato
In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Piranesi and Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dead Poets Society by N H Kleinbaum
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Idiot by Elif Bautman
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Babel by R F Kuang
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Stoner by John Williams
The Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis
The odyssey by Homer
Carmilla by J Sheridan le Fanu
We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
The October Country by Ray Bradbury
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Just to name a few!
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no, it’s gothic girl summer. while you down patrón shots, i’ll be repeatedly catching fevers while staring virginally out into the bogs as i pine for a man without any self-respect and unironically read “the monk” by matthew lewis.
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[...] I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1945
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He did not fail in love, but he lost his joy of it, for I was no longer part of his solitude. As my intimacy with his family grew I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him.
-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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Lord Sebastian Flyte, Brideshead Revisited (2023)
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