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    Brideshead Revisited

    Evelyn Waugh

    Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian’s magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its…

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    A Handful of Dust

    Evelyn Waugh

    After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony…

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    Vile Bodies

    Evelyn Waugh

    Evelyn Waugh's brilliant skewering of the Roaring Twenties

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    Brideshead Revisited

    Evelyn Waugh

    Tells the story of Charles Ryder’s infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit.

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    Decline and Fall

    Evelyn Waugh

    Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of HM prisons…

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    Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

    Evelyn Waugh

    Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian’s magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its…

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    Scoop

    Evelyn Waugh

    One of Waugh’s most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street.

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    The Loved One

    Evelyn Waugh

    Set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, this novel satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh’s memento mori.

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    Decline and Fall

    Evelyn Waugh

    "Decline and Fall" is a satirical novel written by the English author Evelyn Waugh. It was first published in 1928 and is Waugh's first novel. The book is widely regarded…

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    A Handful of Dust

    Evelyn Waugh

    After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony…

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    Decline and Fall

    Evelyn Waugh

    Evelyn Waugh, an English author, first published his novel Decline and Fall in 1928. Decline and Fall was Waugh's first published novel; his previous attempt, The Temple at Thatch, was…

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    Rossetti: His Life and Works

    Evelyn Waugh

    Evelyn Waugh’s first book, published in 1928 when he was 25, is a sardonic account of the tragic and somewhat mysterious life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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    Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins

    Evelyn Waugh

    In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of…

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    Scoop

    Evelyn Waugh

    Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of ‘The Daily Beast’, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not…

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    Decline and Fall

    Evelyn Waugh

    The many adventures of Paul Pennyfeather - Waugh’s first exploration of Oxford student life

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    A Handful of Dust

    Evelyn Waugh

    After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony…

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    Decline and Fall

    Evelyn Waugh

    Decline and Fall is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north…

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    Brideshead Revisited

    Evelyn Waugh

    In 1925 Charles is quickly seduced by his friend’s opulent and glamorous world and thrilled by an invitation to ‘Brideshead’, the Marchmain’s magnificent ancestral home.

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    Vile Bodies

    Evelyn Waugh

    Evelyn Waugh’s second novel, Vile Bodies is his tribute to London’s smart set. It introduces us to society as it used to be but that now is gone forever, and…

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    Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One

    Evelyn Waugh, Prof Adrian Poole

    This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's writings for the first time. This new edition of The Loved…

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    Decline and Fall

    Evelyn Waugh

    Based in part on the author's schooldays at Lancing and then Hertford College in England and subsequently as a teacher in North Wales, "Decline and Fall" is Evelyn Waugh's debut…

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    Evelyn Waugh

    Ann Pasternak-Slater

    A chronologically arranged study, providing lucid and insightful analyses of each of Waugh’s novels, their apparently anarchic comedy, aesthetic finesse and moral coherence.

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    Evelyn Waugh

    Christopher Hollis

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    Evelyn Waugh

    Popular English comic novelist. Key themes: Catholicism and decline of the aristocracy. Writings include: Sword of Honour, Brideshead Revisited, Black Mischief. Volume covers the period 1926-1980.

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    Evelyn Waugh

    Popular English comic novelist. Key themes: Catholicism and decline of the aristocracy. Writings include: Sword of Honour, Brideshead Revisited, Black Mischief. Volume covers the period 1926-1980.

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    Evelyn Waugh

    Ann Pasternak-Slater

    This study shows how Evelyn Waugh transformed his own experiences into painfully comic, brilliantly constructed novels.

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    The Loved One

    Evelyn Waugh

    Recently kicked out of Hollywood, Dennis takes an ignominious-nay-shamefully vulgar job, tending the dead. More than his reputation hangs in the balance if his snobby British ex-pat community discover his…

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    Brideshead Revisited

    Evelyn Waugh

    Brideshead Revisited details the journey of Charles Ryder, who, through the memories of his interactions with an aristocratic English family, encounters various episodes of conversion and experiences the illuminating power…

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    Evelyn Waugh- the Novelist

    Prof Jagdish Chandra Jha

    English writer Evelyn Waugh was an expert satirist and an accomplished novelist; Evelyn Waugh was the second son of the late Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother Alec…

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    Evelyn Waugh- the Novelist

    Prof Jagdish Chandra Jha

    English writer Evelyn Waugh was an expert satirist and an accomplished novelist; Evelyn Waugh was the second son of the late Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother Alec…

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    Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford

    Barbara Cooke

    A unique literary biography, this book brings to life Waugh’s Oxford, exploring the lasting impression it made on one of the most accomplished literary craftsmen of the twentieth century.

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    An Evelyn Waugh Chronology

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    This chronology covers Evelyn Waugh’s life and career, including his numerous friendships, his active social life and his travels.

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    Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life

    David Wykes

    Waugh’s life and his literary life exist in fascinating, dynamic relationship.

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    Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited

    Ronald R. Gray

    A comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. It contains 175 entries on all aspects of the novel, covering such topics as the novel's main characters…

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    Evelyn Waugh: The Complete Stories

    Evelyn Waugh

    A book of brilliant entertainments: thirty-nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people…

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    Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition

    George McCartney

    In this text, George McCartney argues that, unlike traditional satirists, Evelyn Waugh was not primarily concerned with correcting morals and manners. Instead, he laid siege to the cultural and metaphysical…

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    Evelyn Waugh: The Complete Stories

    Evelyn Waugh

    A book of brilliant entertainments: thirty-nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people…

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    Evelyn Waugh: New Directions

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    In this volume of essays on aspects of Waugh’s life and writings, Waugh emerges as a diffident artist and a sensitive recorder not only of the Roaring Twenties but also…

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    Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life

    David Wykes

    Waugh’s life and his literary life exist in relationship. Most of his fiction was autobiographical, yet he maintained that his novels were objects, unrelated to the life of their author…

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    Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life

    David Wykes

    This study traces the shifting relationship of ascertainable fact and imaginative fiction throughout Waugh’s career, focusing on the endless negotiation he conducted between life and art, and on why, from…

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    Evelyn Waugh: New Directions

    In this volume of essays casting new light on aspects of Waugh’s life and writings, the essential Waugh emerges as a diffident artist and a sensitive recorder not only of…

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    Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

    Philip Eade

    A scintillating new biography of the novelist Evelyn Waugh, by acclaimed biographer Philip Eade.

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    Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

    Philip Eade

    A scintillating new biography of the novelist Evelyn Waugh, published fifty years after his death in 1966.

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    Hellfire

    David Fleming

    The first book to tell the remarkable story of Oxford University's hedonistic Hypocrites Club and its (in)famous members

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    Waugh in Abyssinia

    Evelyn Waugh

    In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. This title captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society…

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    Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour

    Frances Donaldson

    This perceptive, affectionate and often vividly illuminating study starts in 1948 and describes their various meetings until his death in 1966. Frances Donaldson describes the writer as family man, friend…

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