The life of Evelyn Waugh : a critical biography

Author:Douglas Lane Patey

Summary:This biography follows Evelyn Waugh's career from the comfortably middle-class home he was anxious to flee, through his escapades at Oxford, his adventures in South America and Africa, his experience of war, to his last years as veiled autobiographer and biographer.

Print Book, English, 1998

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Publisher: Blackwell, Oxford, 1998

Series:

Blackwell critical biographies, 8

Genre:Biography

Physical Description:xviii, 448 s. : illustrations ; 23 cm.

ISBN:

9780631189336, 9780631231349, 0631189335, 063123134X

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:185383985

Subjects:

Engelska författare 1900-talet biografi

Novelists, English Biography 20th century

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 Biography

Contents:

List of Illustrations. 1. Becoming Modern (1903-1930). 2. The Doom of Youth: Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies. 3. Political Decade - I (1930-1935). 4. Political Decade - II (1935-1939). 5. A Peoples War (1939-1945). 6. Brideshead Revisited. 7. A Peoples Peace (1945-50). 8. The Post of Honour is a Private Station (1948-1953). 9. Retrospective: Shaping a Life (1953-66). Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index.