Evelyn Waugh

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Born:
July 10, 1903
Died:
July 10, 1966

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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.Waugh was the son of a publisher, educated at Lancing College and then at Hertford College, Oxford. He worked briefly as a schoolmaster before he became a full-time writer. As a young man, he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends and developed a taste for country house society. He travelled extensively in the 1930s, often as a special newspaper correspondent; he reported from Abyssinia at the time of the 1935 Italian invasion. He served in the British armed forces throughout the Second World War, first in the Royal Marines and then in the Royal Horse Guards. He was a perceptive writer who used the experiences and the wide range of people whom he encountered in his works of …

Books by Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies (Paperback, 1999, Back Bay Books) No rating

Vile Bodies

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Evelyn Waugh: Black mischief (1977, Little, Brown)

Black mischief

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Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One (2000, Penguin Books Ltd)

The Loved One

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Evelyn Waugh: Handful of Dust (1988, Little Brown & Co)

Handful of Dust

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Evelyn Waugh: Powrót do Brideshead (Polish language, 2009, Prószyński i S-ka) No rating

Powrót do Brideshead

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Evelyn Waugh: Decline and fall (1993, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House)

Decline and fall

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Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead revisited (2008, Back Bay Books)

Brideshead revisited

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Evelyn Waugh: Scoop (1999, Back Bay Books) No rating

Scoop

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