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Tag Archives: Daily Telegraph
More Praise for New Waugh Study
The reviewer for the Daily Telegraph (Miranda Seymour) has joined those for the Daily Mail and Independent in praising Duncan McLaren’s new biographical approach to Evelyn Waugh’s early life. See earlier post. According to Seymour: McLaren … offers us two scoops. Exposing … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Miscellaneous
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Duncan McLaren, Miranda Seymour
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Evelyn Waugh Makes Election Appearance
The Guardian has dragged Evelyn Waugh into its U.K. election coverage. In an article on Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish National Party candidate, her apparent popularity is described as the “greatest constitutional crisis since the abdication, which Theresa May [Home Secretary in current government] … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Miscellaneous
Tagged Abdication Crisis, Daily Telegraph, Election, Guardian, Nicola Sturgeon, Nigel Farage, UKIP
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“That Tipsy Don”: Sir Raymond Carr (1919-2015)
In an obituary last week, the Daily Telegraph announced the death of Sir Raymond Carr, Professor of History and Warden of St. Antony’s College at Oxford. His special area of study was Spain, and he is said to have been to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Letters, Miscellaneous
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Lady Mary Charteris, Sir Raymond Carr
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Waugh Recognized as Expert on Style
In yesterday’s Guardian, Waugh is named twice by novelist and bibliophile Joseph Connolly in his list of Top 10 books on the topic of “style.” Connolly (no apparent relation to Waugh’s friend Cyril Connolly a/k/a Everard Spruce) names Brideshead Revisited as … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Miscellaneous, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Allan Massie, Black Velvet, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Joseph Connolly, Noblesse Oblige
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Brideshead Tops Telegraph’s List of TV Book Adaptations
On the occasion of the BBC’s broadcast of its adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novels (taking its title from the first, Wolf Hall), the Daily Telegraph published its list of what it considers the top 20 TV adaptations of all … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Daily Telegraph, Granada TV
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Sword of Honour Among Telegraph’s Best War and History Books
Waugh’s Sword of Honour Trilogy was listed by the Daily Telegraph earlier this year among “Best War and History Books of All Time.” The list consisted of 35 books, including both fiction and history in English and translation. Here is the … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged Best War and History Books of All Time, Books to Read, Daily Telegraph
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Scoop Included in Daily Telegraph Top 100
Last month the Daily Telegraph published a list of the 100 novels everyone should read. This includes translations as well as books in English. There is no explanation of how or by whom the list was compiled or whether the books … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Scoop
Tagged Daily Telegraph
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