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Category Archives: A Handful of Dust
Midsummer Roundup
—The Article has a detailed review of the recent CWEW edition of A Handful of Dust. This is by literary biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers who has written several articles about Waugh in the last few years. Meyers opens his … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Collections, Complete Works, Helena, Sword of Honour
Tagged Academic Accelerator, Catholic World Report, Jeffrey Meyers, Lit Hub, The Article
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LRB Posts Waugh Article
The London Review of Books has posted a feature length article by Seamus Perry relating to several of Waugh’s books. This is entitled “Isn’t London Hell?” The article ostensibly reviews 5 of the 6 Waugh novels published late last year … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged London Review of Books, Penguin Books, Seamus Perry
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4th of July Roundup
–The website LitHub.com has a story about a proposal by the former royal couple Harry and Meghan to Netflix for what sounds like a prequel to Great Expectations. Should that fail to be commissioned, the LitHub reporter Janet Manley has … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Auctions, Black Mischief, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Portraits, Vile Bodies
Tagged Country Life, LitHub.com, Nigeness.com, Tennants, The Comic Muse
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Complete Works Featured in TLS
A review of the four latest volumes in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh series is featured on the cover of this week’s TLS. This is written by literary critic Peter Parker and entitled “A Handful of Books: Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Robbery Under Law, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Oxford University Press, Peter Parker, TLS
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Mother’s Day (US) Roundup
—The Oldie has posted an article by Mark McGinness to mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy on 13 March 1948. In this, he tells the story of her meeting and engagement with Billy Cavendish, Marquess … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Hampstead, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Antiques Trade Gazette, Kathleen Kennedy, The Globe and Mail, The Oldie, The Spectator
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Book Launch in Oxford for “Handful” and “Campion”
Lincoln College, Oxford has announced an event for early next month. It is entitled “From Despair to Faith: Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust and Edmund Campion“. Here are the details: You are warmly invited to a discussion, with Clare … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Academia, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Oxford
Tagged Gerard Kilroy, Henry Woudhuysen, Lincoln College
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Roundup: A Handful of Quotes
–Writing in the London Review of Books about the Iranian armed drones being used by Russia against Ukraine, James Meek is reminded of similar weapons employed by the Nazis against Britain in WWII after the Normandy invasion. These were the … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Aleteia, Harvard Medicine, Literary Hub, London Review of Books, Majorca Daily Bulletin, The European Conservative
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Another Title Added to Complete Works Editions
A Handful of Dust has joined the three other new titles announced for UK release next month in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Here is the description issued by Oxford University Press: Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust (1934) … Continue reading
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Tagged Oxford University Press
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Two Essays: Orwell’s Comic Novels and Waugh’s Oxford
There are two well written and interesting essays this week relating to Waugh. The first is by Jonathan Clarke and appears in the quarterly City Journal. This is entitled “Orwell’s Humor” and relates mainly to his two 1930s comic novels … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged City Journal, Daisy Dunn, George Orwell, Jonathan Clarke, The Oldie
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Summer Solstice Roundup
–In the current issue of Commentary magazine, essayist Joseph Epstein has an article entitled “Good Grief.” This is a fairly light discussion of the heavy subjects of grieving and bereavement. In the course of the discussion, this appears: With Jessica … Continue reading →