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Leicester City, The Novel and Evelyn Waugh

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 is repeating a December series by Simon Barnes entitled Everything You Think About Sport is Wrong. Episode 4 is called “The Novel” and explains how sport is like this literary form. Both tell a story and can spread … Continue reading →

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Social Climbing Heroes

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In the current issue of the Anthony Powell Society Newsletter (Autumn 2016, No. 64) Simon Barnes has written the lead article in which he compares social climbers in three novels: Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time and … Continue reading →

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