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18 de jun. de 2024 · EVELYN WAUGH. I wrote my first piece of fiction at seven: The Curse of the Horse Race. It was vivid and full of action. Then, let's see, there was The World to Come, written in the meter of Hiawatha. When I was at school I wrote a five-thousand-word novel about modern school life. It was intolerably bad. INTERVIEWER. Did you write a ...
18 de jun. de 2024 · Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles...
Hace 2 días · Instead, as in Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited,” university may involve champagne, plovers’ eggs and the “low door in the wall” to gilded love and disappointment. Or more sober lessons about sex and capital — as in the novels of Sally Rooney.
7 de jun. de 2024 · In the latest issue of the New Criterion, Mark Falcoff has written an updated review of Waugh’s 1939 political travel book Robbery Under Law. Falcoff opens with a discussion of the book’s history, noting Waugh’s agreement to write the book … Continue reading →
Hace 2 días · It's funny how some prefer the early Waugh. His first two books—Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies—exercises in wicked wit, came before the sorrow which later defined him (his first wife left him for another man) and was the making of him. Those early books are too light. Take P. G. Wodehouse—too relentlessly humorous, which gets tedious.
17 de jun. de 2024 · Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike in politics, religion and personality, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades.
9 de jun. de 2024 · Decline and Fall, first novel of Evelyn Waugh, published in 1928, a social satire based on his own experiences as a teacher. The protagonist, Paul Pennyfeather, accepts passively all that befalls him. Expelled for indecent behaviour from Scone College, Oxford, he becomes a teacher.
