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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Lancing College remembers Brideshead Revisited
A report by Sussex Living magazine on the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture at Lancing College.
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Events, Fiction, Lancing, Lectures, Television
Tagged Anthony Andrews, Derek Granger
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Sunset Boulevard’s debt to The Loved One
Thanks to Steve Sailer for drawing to our attention his article in Taki’s Magazine about how much Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard is derived from Waugh’s The Loved One, which Wilder had tried to get the movie studio … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Fiction, Film, The Loved One
Tagged Billy Wilder, Steve Sailer, Sunset Boulevard, Taki's Magazine
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Lancing College 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture announced
Lancing College, the school which Evelyn Waugh attended between 1917 and 1921, has announced that the 2013 Evelyn Waugh Lecture will be given on April 18th by Anthony Andrews, the actor who played Sebastian Flyte in the celebrated Granada Television adaptation … Continue reading
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BBC Radio 4 discussion of Decline and Fall
On Feb. 21, on the BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time, David Bradshaw (Professor of English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford), John Bowen (Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York) and Ann Pasternak Slater (Senior Research Fellow at … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Discussions, Fiction, Radio Programs
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, BBC, David Bradshaw, In Our Time, John Bowen, Melvyn Bragg, Radio 4
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Transcript of Lancing College 2012 Evelyn Waugh Lecture now online
The fourth (2012) annual Lancing College Evelyn Waugh Lecture was given on April 19th, 2012 by Reverend Professor Richard Griffiths, who discussed Waugh’s Lancing diaries and the lessons that can be learned from them in relation to his other written works. … Continue reading
New Evelyn Waugh paperback, hardback, e-book, and audiobook editions published by Little, Brown & Hachette
On December 11, Little, Brown reissued the works of fiction of Evelyn Waugh in both paperback, hardback, and e-book formats (e-book link is to Amazon Kindle editions). Waugh’s books were last reissued by Little, Brown in 1999. Hachette Audio is … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobooks, E-books, Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Miscellaneous
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Winner announced of 2011 Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest
The Evelyn Waugh Society is pleased to announce the winner of the seventh (2011) annual Evelyn Waugh Undergraduate Essay Contest. Congratulations to Robert Sherron, whose essay “Guy’s Qualitative Journey towards True Vocation in Sword of Honour” was judged to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Robert Sherron
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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh: Oct. 28, 1903 – Apr. 10, 1966
Today is the 46th anniversary of the death of Evelyn Waugh.
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Evelyn Waugh’s review of Catch-22
In 1961, soliciting a blurb for the coming release of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, an employee of its publisher Simon & Schuster sent an advance copy to Evelyn Waugh. His reply to Miss Bourne begins: Thank you for sending me Catch … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Miscellaneous
Tagged Catch-22, Joseph Heller, Nina Bourne, Simon & Schuster
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists and Waugh/Pinfold
On the website of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, in a section devoted to books that have a mental health theme, Dr. Alexandra Pitman reviews The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: Both author and protagonist describe alcoholic hallucinosis – a relatively rare complication … Continue reading
