Evelyn Arthur St. John Vaughan (Evelyn Arthur St..) John Waugh; 28. X. 1903, London 10. IV. 1966, Somerset) was an English satirist writer. "Brideshead Revisited" - one of the most famous novels of the writer The book was written in 1944. The novel, published at the end of World War II, subtly spelled out the characters of the outgoing era of prosperity of the English aristocracy. The protagonist of the novel, young artist Charles Ryder, meets Sebastian Flyte, a representative of a well-known aristocratic family, while studying in Oxford. After his arrival in Brideshead, the family estate of the Flytes, Charles falls into the maelstrom of bohemian life, and over the next years his fate is inextricably linked with this family.