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Category Archives: Bibliophilia
Another Brideshead Anniversary
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Brideshead Revisited in America in book format. A serialized version had been issued in four installments in November 1944-February 1945 in Town & Country magazine published in New York. The … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, First Editions
Tagged Book of the Month Club, Little Brown & Co
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New Brideshead Edition Announced
Waugh’s North American publisher Little, Brown & Co. has announced plans to issue a new edition of Brideshead Revisited in November. This is to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Little, Brown’s publication of the book in January 1946. Here are … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Berkley Books, George Orwell, Little Brown & Co, Publishers Weekly
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Caveat Lector
The Kenyon Review posts another article by writer Aatif Rashid about re-reading Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: In a piece last month, I wrote about my admiration for Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. [See previous post.] But my experience reading it was actually more … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works
Tagged Aatif Rashid, Kenyon Review
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Brideshead @ 75: Tablet, Quadrant, Penguin
More commemorations of the Brideshead anniversary have been posted: –Eleanor Doughty writing in The Tablet confesses in her introduction that, despite being a dedicated Waugh fan, she has never liked this particular volume. She surveys other literary journalists and scholars, … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers
Tagged Eleanor Doughty, Mark McGinness, Penguin Books, Quadrant, The Tablet
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Penguin Promotes Waugh
Penguin Books, Waugh’s UK paperback publisher since the 1930s, has posted an article by literary journalist John Self about Waugh’s works, most of which are in print in Penguin editions (including some volumes of the attractive 2011 hardback series). The … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Labels, Twitter, Waugh in Abyssinia, When the Going Was Good
Tagged John Self, Penguin Books
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Book Clubs and Waugh
An article has been posted on the academic website TheConversation.com entitled “Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading.” This is by Nicola Wilson of the University of Reading. She explains the growth of book … Continue reading
Waugh’s Victorian Blood Book
On the website openculture.com, blogger Josh Jones has posted a description of the so-called Victorian Blood Book that was acquired by Evelyn Waugh and added to his collection. It now resides in the Harry Ransom Center’s Evelyn Waugh Collection at … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Bibliophilia, Collections
Tagged Harry Ransom Center, openculture.com, Victorian Blood Book
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Waugh in Slovenia
Waugh’s novel Scoop has recently been published in Slovenian, the language spoken in what was once the northernmost province of former Yugoslavia. The translation is by Dušanka Zabukovec who also wrote an Introduction. The book is published by Cankarjeva založba, … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
Tagged Cankarjeva založba, Dušanka Zabukovec, Slovenian translations
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William Boyd’s Library Tour
The Southbank Centre, which hosts numerous cultural events in London–mostly music and art but also including sponsorship of the London Literature Festival, are posting short videos of various writers offering tours of their libraries. The first of these involves novelist … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Collections
Tagged Southbank Centre, William Boyd
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Pretty Penguins All in a Row
Duncan McLaren has undertaken a new project. This will eventually be a collection of all Penguin covers of Waugh’s books to be posted on his website. He has already posted two and they are well worth a look. Since Penguin … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Decline and Fall, Scoop
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Penguin Books
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