Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley

Randolph Remembered

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Daily Beast has published a memoir of Randolph Churchill by Clive Irving. This is in response to Randolph’s relative neglect in the wake of all the attention accorded to his father following two recent successful film treatments and several … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the Nazis?

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

An article in the independent news and opinion website PULSE has an article by Anas el Hawat entitled “On the Astonishment That Nazis Can ‘Still’ Have Taste” that opens with this: Evelyn Waugh [sic], on a visit to Germany in … Continue reading →

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Literary Drinking Bouts

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In today’s Guardian there is an article in the “Rereading” column by Mark Forsyth discussing the 10 most entertaining discriptions of drinking bouts in literature. One of those included is from Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall: Decline and Fall starts … Continue reading →

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Wavian Echoes from Abyssinian War

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Milena Borden has sent the following article based on a recent event reported in Italy (see link) that recalls Waugh’s coverage of the Abyssinian War: Earlier this year, in Italy, the mayor and two town councillors of the town of … Continue reading →

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A Handful of Hard Cheese

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Michael Deacon writing in the Daily Telegraph finds echoes of Waugh in a recent story. This involves the rescue of TV presenter and explorer Benedict Allen from the jumgles of Papua New Guinea into which he had disappeared. Deacon is: … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Cameo in Alternative History Novel

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A books blog, the Deighton Dossier, recently posted an updated article discussing novels based on alternative histories comparable to Len Deighton’s SS-GB in which the Germans successfully invade and occupy Britain in WWII. Among those considered is Lavie Tidhar’s A … Continue reading →

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Hooper Floribundus

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Two religious bloggers have posted extended discussions of Waugh’s works. The Rad Trad has written an essay entitled “The Age of Hooper”. This opens with Waugh’s own introduction of Hooper and his foibles to the readers of Brideshead Revisited: “…Hooper … Continue reading →

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Story from The Isis; Tweets from 1939

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Oxford’s literary magazine The Isis has reprinted a story it published by Evelyn Waugh. This was his first and apparently his only story published in that journal, but it was followed by several in Cherwell, according to Ann Pasternak Slater’s … Continue reading →

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Wavian Echoes from WWII

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Milena Borden sends this posting: Last week, the UN war times tribunal in The Hague sentenced General Ratko Mladić, of the Jugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and the military commander of the Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s, to life imprisonment. … Continue reading →

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Sotheby’s to Sell Small Waugh Collection

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Sotheby’s London has scheduled a the sale of small collection of signed copies and first editions of books by Evelyn Waugh on 11-12 December. These are apparently from a larger otherwise unidentified Hampstead Collection of two collectors living in that … Continue reading →

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