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Category Archives: Fiction
Waugh and Country Houses
There have been several recent articles that mention Evelyn Waugh in connection with English country houses: Carlton Towers. As noted in a recent post, this house was the setting of Hetton Abbey in the 1980s film version of A Handful of … Continue reading
Et in Arcadia Ego (More)
The Latin phrase that Waugh used for the first chapter of Brideshead Revisited (“Et in Arcadio Ego”) was mentioned in a recent post in connection with Paul Theroux’s humorous allusion to it in his recent novel Mother Land. Since that was … Continue reading
Waugh in Mother Land
Mother Land is the latest novel of Paul Theroux whose career has many similarities to that of Evelyn Waugh. Both made their living exclusively from writing after beginning as school teachers. Theroux’s teaching career began in the Peace Corps on … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Sightings
Tagged Alex Clark, Mother Land, Observer, Paul Theroux
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BBC Radio 3 Programme Will Include Waugh
BBC Radio 3 has announced a new episode in its series Words and Music that will include the reading of an excerpt from the writings of, inter alia, Evelyn Waugh. Each episode involves the reading by one or more actors … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Radio Programs, The Loved One
Tagged BBC Radio 3, Southside Broadcasting, Words and Music
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Arnold Bennett Anniversary Remembered
The South China Morning Post has marked the 150th anniversary of novelist and critic Arnold Bennett’s birth. This appears in the paper’s travel column by Adam Nebbs which seems odd until he explains that Bennett wrote two books that took place in London’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Articles, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged Arnold Bennett, Savoy Hotel, South China Morning Post
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Sword of Honour on Several Summer Lists
Waugh’s war trilogy Sword of Honour has been named on several recent lists as recommended summer reading. The Irish Times polled a number of readers who also happen to be writers, and novelist John Banville included SoH: David Brown’s new biography … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Guardian, Irish Times, John Banville, summer reading, Tod Worner
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Waugh and Chesterton
The Italian religious website Radio Spada has posted an essay by Luca Fumagalli entitled “Chesterton e Waugh: ridere per non dimenticare“, roughly “Chesterton and Waugh: laughing so as not to forget.” The article notes that Waugh and Chesterton had little to connect them as … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism
Tagged G.K. Chesterton, Luca Fumagelli, Radio Spada
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American Castles and Brutalist Towers
The latest issue of the National Review has an essay by Michael Knox Beran entitled “Why We Love McMansions and Other Modern Castles.” …America, though born in the faith that all men are created equal, is infatuated with castles — … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged architecture, Grenfell Tower, Michael Knox Beran, National Review, Richard King
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