Evelyn Waugh : a biography /

"One of the foremost writers of our time, Evelyn Waugh was also one of its most extraordinary eccentrics, with a life full of comedy and conflict. Selina Hastings, who was granted unrestricted access to his personal papers by Waugh's family, has uncovered a wealth of new material in her ei...

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Main Author: Hastings, Selina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1994]
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Table of Contents:
  • The physical materials
  • A world of privacy and love
  • The flint-girt fortress
  • An enclosed and enchanted garden
  • Teaching the mad boys
  • My mock marriage
  • The island of sanity
  • Remote people
  • Heavy Catholic trouble
  • I have to wait wait wait God it is sad
  • Lovely house, lovely wife, great happiness
  • Bloodshed avoided at the cost of honour
  • My military future is vague
  • Age of the common man
  • Burrowing ever deeper into the rock
  • There is no refuge.