Category Archives: Fiction

Essays solicited on controversial theology in fiction

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Professor Marc DiPaolo of Okalahoma City University is compiling a book of essays on controversial theology in fiction. He would like to include an essay on Brideshead Revisited, as well as essays on Graham Greene, C. S. Lewis, G. B. … Continue reading →

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Osbert Sitwell’s inscribed copy of Decline and Fall for sale

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Antony F. P. Vickery

England's Colchester Bookshop is offering for sale a copy of Decline and Fall inscribed to Osbert Sitwell. From the listing at AbeBooks.com: An exceptional association and presentation copy from the very beginning of Evelyn Waugh's career as an author, dated … Continue reading →

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New Waugh Penguins coming in 2011

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Penguin UK's 2011 publication schedule includes seventeen books by Evelyn Waugh, all hardbacks except for The Complete Short Stories, which will be in paperback. May: A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Labels, Ninety-Two Days, Remote People, Rossetti, … Continue reading →

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The cult of Brideshead among Oxbridge students

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Antony F. P. Vickery

"Brideshead Regurgiated: Is the cult of Brideshead among Cantabridgians harmless fun, or does it conceal a regressive social agenda?" [Daniel Janes, The Cambridge Student]

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