Category Archives: A Little Learning

OUP Announces Dates for First Complete Works Volumes

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The Oxford University Press on its website has announced the publication of the first volumes in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. There are five books in this initial batch which will begin to appear on 7 September 2017 with Rossetti: … Continue reading →

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Early Waugh Book on Offer

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

London booksellers Peter Harrington are offering an early Waugh publication from 1927. This is a collection called the Decorative Drawings of Francis Crease for which Waugh wrote the 5 page preface. This was published the year after the appearance of his … Continue reading →

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Dudley Carew (More)

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

The current issue of The Cricket Monthly includes a major article about Waugh’s school friend Dudley Carew. See earlier post. This article, by Gideon Haigh, has particular reference to Carew’s career as a reporter on cricket for The Times and his 1936 cricket-themed … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the Rolling Stones

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In the Washington Free Beacon, columnist Matthew Walter reviews the Rolling Stones’ latest album Blue and Lonesome. The review is not favorable. After comparing the new album to the earlier works of the Stones and others, he gets around to … Continue reading →

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A Tiger’s Dinner

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

An auction house in London has on offer a letter from Evelyn Waugh dated 4 December 1964 to Peter Luke, playwright and journalist. In it, Waugh apologizes for having written in A Little Learning that Luke’s grandfather, who was the father of … Continue reading →

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Anthony Burgess Society to Convene Centenary Conference

Posted on October 9, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Anthony Burgess Society has announced a conference next year to mark the centenary of the novelist and critic to whom their organization is dedicated. The conference will be held on 3-5 July 2017 in Manchester, which was Burgess’s home … Continue reading →

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Waugh in China

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Yesterday’s notice on new publications of Waugh’s books in Japanese translations made your correspondent wonder whether Waugh may be enjoying similar availability in other Asian languages. Chinese is easy enough to check because there is an Amazon.cn site selling books. From … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and the Preposterous Parson

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A book describing the career of Rev Basil Bourchier, the first vicar of St Jude-on-the-Hill in Hampstead Garden Suburb, has been written by the current vicar, Alan Walker. Evelyn Waugh’s family were parishioners at the church in his youth, and … Continue reading →

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More Laycock Presentation Copies on Offer

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Peter Harrington Books has listed an offering of two more of Waugh’s presentation copies to Robert and Angela Laycock. See earlier post. One is a copy of Work Suspended (first edition limited to 500 copies,1942) presented to Angela with the note … Continue reading →

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Black Mischief in Sri Lanka

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In this week’s “Midweek Review” column in the daily Sri Lankan English-language newspaper The Island, columnist Dr. Kamal Wickremasinghe compares what he describes as the neocolonialist policies of the current government of Sri Lanka with the comic plot of Waugh’s … Continue reading →

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