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Category Archives: Fiction
Review of The Loved One DVD
A Connecticut-based newspaper weblog contains a feature-length article that is essentially a review of the DVD of the 1965 film based on Waugh’s novella, The Loved One (1948). The review concludes that the film begins well with the early scenes satirizing … Continue reading
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Tagged Mischief in the Sun, Robert Murray Davis
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Waugh and the Italian Ham
The internet site of a translation service has posted a brief article on the derivation of the word prosciutto as their word of the day for 14 October. In English, it has come to mean Italian ham, but in Italian, it is … Continue reading
Folio Society Issues New Edition of Vile Bodies
The Folio Society recently issued an illustrated edition of Waugh’s second novel, Vile Bodies. It has an introduction written “for this stylish new edition” by David Lodge, Honorary President of the Evelyn Waugh Society, and is illustrated by Kate Baylay. According to the Folio … Continue reading
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Tagged David Lodge, Folio Society
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Paula Byrne to Lecture at Oxfordshire Museum
Literary biographer Paula Byrne will lecture at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock on the subject of her book Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (2009). The lecture, sponsored by the Woodstock Literature Society, is scheduled for Saturday, 24 October … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Lectures, Oxford
Tagged Mad World, Paula Byrne, Woodstock Literature Society
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Waugh in North Devon
Following his recent appearance at the Appledore Literary Festival, Duncan McLaren has posted two new articles to his website. “Evelyn in Appledore” and “When Henry Met Evelyn” recount the details of Evelyn Waugh’s visit to that town where he worked on the second … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Vile Bodies
Tagged Appledore Literary Festival, Duncan McLaren, Henry Williamson
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Put Out More Voles
The Daily Telegraph has run a story about restoration of the water vole in the English countryside. It begins with a quote from Waugh: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.” So wrote William Boot, hapless reporter of … Continue reading
Alan Hollinghurst Praises Waugh Novel
In the latest New York Times “T-Magazine”, British novelist Alan Hollinghurst, best known for Line of Beauty (which reminded some commentators of Brideshead Revisited), has named his 10 favorite books. Among those listed is Waugh’s Put Out More Flags: Published in 1942, … Continue reading
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Fogs of Waugh
A new book on the history of London fogs has inspired a reference to Evelyn Waugh’s thoughts on the subject. The book is London Fog: The Biography to be published next month and reviewed in this week’s London Review of Books. (Full access … Continue reading
Evelyn Waugh and the Charvet Shirt
A recent issue of the New York Times style magazine, somewhat presumptuously called “T,” carries an article (“Not Just Any White Shirt”) describing shirts made by the Parisian fashion house Charvet. In his efforts to validate this company as the benchmark brand for men’s shirts, the author … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Charvet, men's fashions, New York Times
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