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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Another Literary Anniversary
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Graham Greene’s death in 1991. There have been several events associated with this anniversary. Perhaps the most ambitious is the BBC’s undertaking to adapt four of Greene’s novels for radio presentations. The most … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Conferences, Festivals, Radio, Radio Programs, Robbery Under Law
Tagged BBC Radio 4, Carlos Villar Flor, D.J.Taylor, Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, Roy Hattersley, The Tablet
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Waugh, Churchill and Maisky
The National Interest magazine, a U.S. bi-monthly espousing what is described as a realist view on foreign policy, has reviewed the diaries of Ivan Maisky, who was the Soviet ambassador in the U.K. at the beginning of WWII. The review … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Officers and Gentlemen, World War II
Tagged Ivan Maisky, Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest
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Russian Literary Journal Marks Waugh Anniversary
The Russian literary journal Inostrannaia Literatura (Foreign Literature) has devoted about two-thirds of its April 2016 issue to a collection of essays and translations relating to Evelyn Waugh. This was issued on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Waugh’s death. The cover is … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Anniversaries, Articles, Interviews, Labels, Letters, Radio Programs
Tagged Inostrannaia literatura, Radio Svoboda, Russian translations
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Waugh Novel Included in Best Books of Past 75 Years
Parade magazine is marking its 75th anniversary. It was started in 1941 by what has now become the Chicago Sun-Times as a weekly insert for Sunday newspapers. They asked novelist Ann Patchett to make a list of the best 75 books … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged Ann Patchett, Parade magazine
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Weekly Standard Reviews The Prose Factory
The US neoconservative journal The Weekly Standard in its latest issue has reviewed D J Taylor’s history of the English “man of letters” since World War I . See earlier posts. The book, entitled The Prose Factory, was published earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Television
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Dominic Green, The Prose Factory, Weekly Standard
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Film Inspired by Brideshead Revisited Released on DVD
The Bay Area Reporter, a San Francisco area weekly newspaper dedicated to reporting news of interest to the LGBT community, has reviewed a recent film entitled Those People. This has just been released on DVD and is “loosely based” on … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Bay Area Reporter, Those Poeple
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Waugh Cited on 75th Anniversary of Invasion of Soviet Union
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. Up to then the two countries had been allies, and the invasion ended up converting the Soviets into allies of the Western forces, at that point … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Officers and Gentlemen, World War II
Tagged Conservative History Journal
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Satirical Novels Listed on Interactive Rating Site
The interactive rating site Ranker has started a list of the best satirical novels. So far, there are four of Waugh’s novels on the list: Decline and Fall, The Loved One, Scoop and A Handful of Dust (in descending order of rank) . There … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Ranker, Satirical Novels
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Waugh Included in Catholic Book List
The editor of a nondenominational Christian online news site, The Christian Review, has compiled a list of what he considers the best 100 Catholic novels. These include novels published between 1827 and 2011 and are listed chronologically. The somewhat subjective … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Collections, Helena
Tagged 100 best catholic novels, The Christian Review
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