The life of Evelyn Waugh : a critical biography
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.
Biography
xviii, 448 s. : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780631189336, 9780631231349, 0631189335, 063123134X
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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.