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Author Archives: Jeffrey Manley
Waugh Novels Recommended on Valentine’s Day
The editors of The American Scholar put together a list of books for Valentine’s Day reading. The idea was to “celebrate the whole history of love—even the ugly bits—with these 14 novels of romance gone awry.” Among those selected was … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One
Tagged The American Scholar, Valentine's Day
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War, Peace and Brideshead
In yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, Harry Mount declares the recent BBC adaptation of War and Peace by Andrew Davies to be a failure. This is inevitable, he writes, when an attempt is made to compress a massive 19th Century novel, written originally in a foreign language, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television, Television Programs
Tagged Andrew Davies, BBC, Daily Telegraph, Harry mount, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Tony Last and Julian Assange
A UK political blogger has posted a message comparing the plight of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the hero of Waugh’s novel Handful of Dust. This was T0ny Last, who: … ends the book trapped as a prisoner in the Brazilian jungle – … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust
Tagged Charles Dickens, Julian Assange
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Adapter of Brideshead Film Profiled in Independent
Andrew Davies, probably the most prominent adapter of books into TV series is profiled in a recent issue of the Independent newspaper. This article is inspired by his latest script which adapted Tolstoy’s War and Peace into a 6-hour series on … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film, Television
Tagged Andrew Davies, BBC, Independent newspaper, War and Peace
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Waugh and “How to Spend It”
The London Review of Books Blog has posted an article by Inigo Thomas on conspicuous consumption as evidenced by the magazine How to Spend It that accompanies weekend editions of the Financial Times. The blog article opens with a description … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Financial Times, How to Spend It, Waldorf Astoria
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TES Cites Black Mischief
The latest Times Educational Supplement cites Waugh’s Black Mischief in its “What Are You Reading? ” column. This has an entry by Peter Catterall, Reader in History at University of Westminister and author of several books on British history and politics, who writes: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Black Mischief
Tagged Peter Catterall, TES
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Julia Flyte and the Quality of Mercy
An article on the Christian concept of mercy in the recent opinion pages of the Times of Malta opens with a quote from Waugh: In Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited – that great Catholic novel on life, death, the fall from … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism
Tagged Merchant of Venice, Times of Malta
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TLS Posts 1935 Review of Waugh’s Edmund Campion
The curent issue of the TLS posts the 1935 review of Waugh’s Edmund Campion in its Then and Now column. The review is written by A.F. Pollard, Professor of History at University College London and specialist in the Tudor period. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Edmund Campion
Tagged A.F. Pollard, TLS
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Evelyn Waugh, Conversation and Dean Swift
In a weblog entitled Anecdotal Evidence, blogger Patrick Kurp has posted an article based on Frances Donaldson’s 1967 memoir Evelyn Waugh: Diary of a Country Neighbor. It opens with this quote: “When he came to our house or we took … Continue reading
Posted in Books about Evelyn Waugh, Letters
Tagged art of conversation, Frances Donaldson, Jonathan Swift
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New Book on Roman Catholic Culture Praises Waugh
A Roman Catholic newsblog OSV Newsweekly has posted a notice reviewing a recent book by Robert Royal. This is A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Traditions in the Twentieth Century. According to the reviewer (Russell Shaw), Royal’s book: …is an attempt — a remarkably successful … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Sword of Honour
Tagged A Deeper Vision, OSV Weekly, Robert Royal
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