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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Waugh in China
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
Posted in A Handful of Dust, A Little Learning, Bibliophilia, Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Chinese translations, Korean translations
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Waugh in Oxford News
Waugh figures in an article in the newspaper Catholic World Report written by a Roman Catholic Rhodes Scholar about her recent experiences as a student in Oxford. She mentions numerous Roman Catholic churches still active in Oxford outside the university … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Chattels & Movables, Newspapers, Oxford, Ronald Knox
Tagged Campion Hall, Catholic World Report, Ducker and Sons
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Waugh and Hemingway and “Beat-up Old Bastards”
An article in The Huffington Post earlier this week discusses Ernest Hemingway’s claims to have killed 122 “Krauts” during WWII and compares that claim with those of Chris Kyle (subject of the autobiography and film American Sniper) to have killed 160 enemy … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged American Sniper, Ernest Hemingway, The Huffington Post
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A Norwegian Review of Waugh’s Career
The latest issue of Agenda Magasin (a Norwegian language journal) includes an extended esaay on the career of Evelyn Waugh and his literary legacy in Norway. This is by Ivar Dale and is written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of … Continue reading
Waugh in Review of Auden’s Collected Works
In the latest issue of The Weekly Standard, Edward Short reviews the the 6th and final volume of The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose. This is edited by Edward Mendelson. Waugh is mentioned several times: One can agree … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Edward Mendelson, Edward Short, The Weekly Standard, W H Auden
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Waugh’s Conversion
In an article posted on a Roman Catholic evangelical weblog Aleteia.org, the details of Evelyn Waugh’s conversion to that religion are provided, mostly in Waugh’s own words from a 20 October 1930 essay in the Daily Express. Waugh had written the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Express, Religious Conversion
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Evelyn Waugh and the Preposterous Parson
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
Posted in A Little Learning, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Hampstead
Tagged Rev Alan Walker, Rev Basil Bourchier, St Jude-on-the-Hill
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Another Cocktail Attributed to Waugh
A pub in Kuala Lumpur is offering an exotic cocktail called the Noonday Reviver that is attributed to Evelyn Waugh. The pub is called The Sticky Wicket and has a cricket theme throughout its decor and menu. The cocktail is described as a reinterpretation … Continue reading
Posted in Labels, Sightings, Wine in Peace and War
Tagged cocktails, Kingsley Amis, Noonday Reviver, The Sticky Wicket
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More Laycock Presentation Copies on Offer
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
Posted in A Little Learning, First Editions, Items for Sale, Work Suspended
Tagged Angela Laycock, Peter Harrington Books, Robert Laycock
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Waugh Presentation Copies of More than Usual Interest
York Modern Books has published a list of new arrivals which includes two presentation copies of Waugh’s books of more than routine interest. The first is a copy of Scott-King’s Modern Europe which may have been presented to Waugh’s sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Items for Sale, Scott-King's Modern Europe, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Hugh Trevor-Roper, presentation copies, York Modern Books
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