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Category Archives: Fiction
Duncan McLaren in Grahamland
Duncan McLaren has added a new essay to his website. This is entitled “Evelyn Concluded or Ask Alastair” and is devoted exclusively to Alastair Graham and his on and off relationship with Evelyn Waugh in the 1920s and a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Wales
Tagged Alasatir Graham, Duncan McLaren
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Patrick Leigh Fermor Enters the Canon
Dominic Green, writing in the Weekly Standard, discusses the career of Patrick Leigh Fermor. The article prominently features serveral points of contact with Evelyn Waugh, not least their service in WWII Crete (Waugh’s in retreat, Leigh Fermor’s in heroism) and … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged christopher Buckley, Dominic Green, Partick Leigh Fermor Society, Powells Books Blog, Weekly Standard
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Roundup: Eating with Waugh
The Daily Telegraph has a profile of the London fish restaurant Wilton’s on Jermyn Street in St James’s. It is to fish what Rules is to meat, and Waugh is associated with both of them. According to the Telegraph: The … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, London, Sword of Honour
Tagged Architectural Digest, Bellamy's, Daily Telegraph, David Foster Wallace, New English Review, Open Syllabus Project, The Independent, Wilton's
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Brideshead Published in Croatian
Brideshead Revisited has been published in a Croatian translation. This is entitled Povratak u Brideshead and is issued by Mozaik Books. The book is translated by Petra Mrduljaš, and the editor is Zoran Maljković. According to the publisher, this is … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, The Loved One, World War II
Tagged Croatia, Petra Mrduljaš, translations, Večernji List
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Piers Court for Sale
Waugh’s country house in Gloucestershire has been listed for sale according to Country Life magazine. The listing agent is Knight, Frank and the asking price is £3 million. The article by Penny Churchill explains that the current owners, who have lived … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Robbery Under Law, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Anna Temkin, Country Life, Daily Post (Wales), Knight Frank, Penny Churchill, Piers Court, Plas Dulas, R M Dawkins, The Times
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U and Non-U (more)
The U and Non-U debate continues in the pages of the TLS. The latest batch of comments centers on the proper salutation before having a drink. A letter takes issue with the Non-U status imposed on “Cheers” by Nancy Mitford, … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms, Newspapers
Tagged TLS, U and Non-U
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Put Out More Flags Reconsidered
John Rossi, Professor of History at La Salle University cites Put Out More Flags as underrated, while nevertheless being considered by some as the best novel of WWII. This is in the latest issue of the American Conservative Magazine. Rossi … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, World War II
Tagged John Rossi, The American Conservative, Weekly Standard
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Lord Marchmain and a Secular Death
A scene from Brideshead features prominently in a post on the Oxford University Press weblog. This is by Wayne Glausser, Professor of English at De Pauw University. He was reminded of what he calls secular death by the recent passing … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Oxford University Press, Wayne Glausser
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A Naïve Domestic Little Unicorn
Writing in Forbes magazine, John Mariani surveys wine writing and finds that this is one area where inexperienced “experts” tend to bring too much imagination to bear on their work. He uses a scene from Brideshead Revisited to illustrate his … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Forbes magazine, James Mariani, James Thurber, New Yorker magazine, Wine
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