Monthly Archives: March 2017

Scoop Recommended on World Book Day

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Today is World Book Day. The Daily Telegraph marks the occasion issuing another list of recommended reading–this is the Top 20 and includes Waugh’s Scoop: Last year Telegraph writers put together a list of the 100 novels everyone should read. From … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and the “Catholic Novel”

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A blogger writing as Tychy has posted an article billed as a review of Graham Greene’s 1938 novel Brighton Rock but is really an essay on Greene’s writing as a Roman Catholic novelist. The blogger (a non-catholic) begins by comparing Greene’s … Continue reading →

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Waugh Topic of Lecture and Preview

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

This month will see Waugh’s biographer Martin Stannard lecture in Oxford and the BBC’s film of Decline and Fall previewed in Cardiff: Campion Hall in Oxford will host a lecture by Prof Martin Stannard entitled “No Abiding City: Evelyn Waugh and America”. Stannard, … Continue reading →

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