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Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

  1. The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73 edited by John Saumarez Smith
    Savidge Reads 1 day ago

    Throw in her wit and the fact that she mingled in some of the most interesting society in London and Paris as a Mitford sister and you have insight into so many worlds, written in such a way that you cannot help be fascinated whilst smiling wryly. Who...

  2. Yardley of London fragrances will leave you smelling like an English rose: Beauty spot
    Toronto Star logo Toronto Star 1 day ago
    The pretty pink tin of Yardley of London's English rose talc would nestle nicely onto Lady Mary’s dressing table.

    SUPPLIED PHOTO My slavish devotion to the television drama series Downton Abbey knows no bounds. The seeds of my great English country home obsession were sown with Agatha Christie books at puberty, then steeped in the potent drawing room brew of...

  3. I thought Evelyn Waugh was an ogre and I was going to rescue her
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
  4. Picasso & Modern British Art - review
    This Is London 2 days ago
    Picasso

    Early admirers in England, slavish, seeing him take himself so seriously, took him seriously too; others, including Winston Churchill, Evelyn Waugh and a posse of Royal Academicians, would have kicked his arse; and between these lay what inexorably...

  5. Picasso Ticked Off Churchill, Fired Up Bacon, Tate Shows: Review
    BusinessWeek logo BusinessWeek 2 days ago

    This encounter never occurred. Churchill’s attitude, though, was representative of one British response to the great Spanish artist. He was the modernist conservatives loved to hate: The novelist Evelyn Waugh was in the habit of ending letters with the...

  6. More Than Melancholy: 'In-Flight' Stories Soar
    NPR logo NPR 2 days ago
    Helen Simpson is also the author of the short-story collections Getting a Life, Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Dear George.

    Programming. How? Fiction More on this book: NPR reviews, interviews and more Read an excerpt The Brits: You've got to hand it to them. The Empire may be long gone, but they still reign supreme when it comes to effortlessly exuding mordant wit. For...

  7. Evelyn Waugh discusses writing, death and sin
    YouTube Logo YouTube Videos 24 months ago
  8. ED GOLDMAN: Downton Abbey fever strikes
    Sacramento Business Journal logo Sacramento Business Journal 2 days ago

    Details are online here. While I’m sure it’s a terrific show, the only PBS series I’ve ever been addicted to were the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, based on the cozily tweedy books by Dorothy Sayers, and Brideshead Revisited, based on the snarlingly...

  9. Why there are no good English novels about sport
    The Telegraph logo The Telegraph 3 days ago
    Village cricket

    The model for Bobby Southcott was, incidentally, Evelyn Waugh’s elder brother, Alec. Alec Waugh was himself a successful middlebrow novelist and I shouldn’t be surprised if there are some cricketing scenes in some of his now mostly forgotten books. ...

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About Evelyn Waugh

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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (IPA: /ˈiːvlɪn ˈwɔː/) (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was a British writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy that clearly... Full Article

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  1. I thought Evelyn Waugh was an ogre and I was going to rescue her
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 2 months ago
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