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Category Archives: Evelyn Waugh
Essays solicited on controversial theology in fiction
Professor Marc DiPaolo of Okalahoma City University is compiling a book of essays on controversial theology in fiction. He would like to include an essay on Brideshead Revisited, as well as essays on Graham Greene, C. S. Lewis, G. B. … Continue reading
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Osbert Sitwell’s inscribed copy of Decline and Fall for sale
England's Colchester Bookshop is offering for sale a copy of Decline and Fall inscribed to Osbert Sitwell. From the listing at AbeBooks.com: An exceptional association and presentation copy from the very beginning of Evelyn Waugh's career as an author, dated … Continue reading
Posted in Autographs, Bibliophilia, Decline and Fall, First Editions
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New Waugh Penguins coming in 2011
Penguin UK's 2011 publication schedule includes seventeen books by Evelyn Waugh, all hardbacks except for The Complete Short Stories, which will be in paperback. May: A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Labels, Ninety-Two Days, Remote People, Rossetti, … Continue reading
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New Evelyn Waugh biography
Beautiful Books will be publishing in September a new biography of Evelyn Waugh by Duncan McLaren, Evelyn!: Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love. From the publisher's website: Duncan McLaren, the acclaimed biographer of Enid Blyton, here turns his attention to Evelyn … Continue reading
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The cult of Brideshead among Oxbridge students
"Brideshead Regurgiated: Is the cult of Brideshead among Cantabridgians harmless fun, or does it conceal a regressive social agenda?" [Daniel Janes, The Cambridge Student]
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Miscellaneous, Television
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Waugh-related items in Bonham’s sale, March 29th
The Bonham's auction Papers & Portraits: The Roy Davids Collection Part II, to be held on March 29th, includes three lots related to Evelyn Waugh: two photographic portraits (lots 245 and 246), and an unpublished letter (lot 247). Viewing dates … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Letters, Portraits
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Evelyn Waugh’s Zodiac Settle sold
A "rare example of 19th-century, painted Gothic revival furniture that was once owned by John Betjeman and Evelyn Waugh has been sold by the Waugh family." [Art Sales, The Telegraph, photo]
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