One man in this novel used to impersonate the wife of the Duke of Vincennes over the phone.
One man in this novel used to impersonate the wife of the Duke of Vincennes over the phone. A child in this novel tricks a man into thinking that people can pay churches to get specific people sent to hell. That girl, Cordelia, quotes Chesterton about an "unseen hook and an invisible line" holding her brother, who cares for the German soldier Kurt. This novel's protagonist does architectural sketches of Latin America and has an affair on a cruise ship with the wife of (*) Rex Mottram, Julia. He often visits her alcoholic brother, who in college had thrown up in his window and carried around the teddy bear Aloysius. During WWII, this book's protagonist is stationed at the estate of the Marchmain family and remembers his friendship with their son Sebastian Flyte. For 10 points, name this novel about Charles Ryder, by Evelyn Waugh.
One man in this novel used to impersonate the wife of the Duke of Vincennes over the phone.
Brideshead Revisited