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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
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
Maugham, Ford, Waugh, and the experience of war
In The Spectator‘s Book Blog, Steven McGregor discusses Somerset Maugham’s The Hero, Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, and Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour Trilogy in the light of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a follow-up post, David … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Fiction, Sword of Honour
Tagged Afghanistan, David Blackburn, Ford Madox Ford, Iraq, Parade's End, Somerset Maugham, Spectator, Steven McGregor, The Hero
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Evelyn Waugh’s personal guidelines for dealing with fan mail
As above, from Flavorwire.
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Miscellaneous
Tagged Nancy Mitford
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Party like it’s 1929: Vile Bodies at the V&A
This Friday, Feb. 24th, as part of its Friday Late series, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is putting on an evening of entertainment with the theme of Bright Young Things. Included in the program is a theater adaptation … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Events, Theater, Vile Bodies
Tagged London, V&A
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Brideshead vs. Downton
Alexander Nazaryan in the New York Daily News gives the crown to Brideshead.
Posted in Brideshead Revisited
Tagged Alexander Nazaryan, articles, Downton Abbey, New York Daily News
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Evelyn Waugh Conference & Exhibit in Baltimore
Loyola Notre Dame Library in Baltimore is hosting two events this year to commemorate Evelyn Waugh’s visits to the United States in the late 1940s. Evelyn Waugh Exhibit (February 27th to April 7th): “An Englishman in Catholic America,” a display of … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Bibliophilia, Catholicism, Chattels & Movables, Events, First Editions, Letters
Tagged baltimore, loyola, notre dame
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Paul Johnson: Novelists at Arms
Paul Johnson in Standpoint magazine surveys novels and novelists of the Second World War, including James Jones, Norman Mailer, Olivia Manning, Anthony Powell, and Evelyn Waugh: It is a mistake, in my view, to hold a popularity contest between A … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Sword of Honour
Tagged Anthony Powell, James Jones, Norman Mailer, Olivia Manning, Second World War, Standpoint, WWII
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LibraryThing completes online catalog of Evelyn Waugh’s library
The book-centered social website LibraryThing has announced that its project to make available online a catalog of Evelyn Waugh's library has been completed. LibraryThing states that 2,752 books are in the finished catalog, but this number is considerably less than … Continue reading
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