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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Céline, Muriel Spark and Lloyd Cole
Frederic Raphael is still best known for the TV adaptation of his own 1976 novel The Glittering Prizes, which is often compared with Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the popular and critical success … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Television, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Vile Bodies, World War II
Tagged Celine, Frederic Raphael, Guardian, Lancashire Post, Lloyd Cole, Muriel Spark, The Commotions, The Glittering Prizes, TLS
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Waugh in Abyssinia Again
Evelyn Waugh is quoted prominently in an article appearing on an Ethiopian news website called ethioexplorer.com. The quote is in the original English although the text of the article is in Amharic: “Abyssinia could not claim recognition on equal terms … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Battle of Adowa, ethioexplorer.com, Ethiopia
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When the Going was Written
A feature length article by Jorge Martinez appears in the Buenos Aires newspaper La Prensa and is entitled “Auge y caida de la literatura de viajes” (“Rise and fall of travel writing”). Although the article is written in Spanish, most of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, When the Going Was Good
Tagged Jorge Martinez, La Prensa, Travel Writing
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Weekend Roundup–Friends at a Distance: Mitford/Waugh Letters
An article on the books blog The Captive Reader is effectively a new review of The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh first published in 1996. This is written by “Claire of Vancouver” and opens with this: Mitford and … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Letters, Scott-King's Modern Europe, The Loved One
Tagged catholicism.org, Latin Mass, Lucy Beckett, Muriel Spark, Nancy Mitford, Robert Hickson, The Irish Times, TLS
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Waugh and Tito
Standpoint magazine in its current issue has reprinted a letter from Milena Borden who is also one of our readers. She was commenting on an article in the magazine’s November issue as explained in her letter. Here is the text of … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, World War II
Tagged Marshall Tito, Milena Borden, Robin Harris, Standpoint Magazine, Yugoslavia
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“Night and Day”– A Londoner’s “New Yorker”
Literary critic and journalist Terry Teachout has written an article in the Wall Street Journal about the short-lived magazine Night and Day. This is entitled “The Magazine Shirley Temple Shut Down”. According to Teachout: The New Yorker has been around … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Graham Greene, Night and Day, Shirley Temple, Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
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West Coast Waugh
The Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco) has a review of Acorn TV’s DVD version of the BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall. After a background of the novel’s writing and summary of the story, reviewer Brian Bromberger concludes with this: Director … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Acorn TV, Brian Bromberger, Caitlin Doughty, Robert McCrum, The Bay Area Reporter, The Spectator
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Prendergast’s Wig and Brexit
A reader of the Financial Times has written to the paper equating Brexit to the wig of Waugh’s character Mr Prendergast in his novel Decline and Fall. Here’s the explanation from Geoff Scargill of Stockport: … All the boys know it … Continue reading
