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Vor 5 Tagen · The Catholic Herald’s article concludes with this: Evelyn Waugh is one of over a hundred writers discussed in Mark Roberts’ new book ‘Florence Has Won my Heart: Literary Visitors to the Tuscan Capital, 1750-1950’. The Catholic Herald’s article is available here. The book is on offer from Amazon.com at this link.
Vor 3 Tagen · COMMENTARY: ‘The little black smudge on the forehead,’ says Evelyn Waugh, seals Catholics as ‘members of a great brotherhood who can both rejoice and recognize the limits of rejoicing’ David Mills, February 22, 2023
Vor 2 Tagen · Several far-better known and experienced reviewers than I have written on Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honor Trilogy, noting the resemblance of its major romantic sub-plot to the prophet Hosea while at the same time generally consigning the majority of the military misadventures, the bulk of the story, to the waste bin as, at most, an amusing distraction from the Hosea plot and, at worst, a ...
Vor einem Tag · SCOTLAND'S capital, Edinburgh, has been named one of the best cities in Britain for book lovers by The Telegraph. Introducing the list, which features locations like Exeter, Manchester and Dublin, the newspaper said: "From Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist to Sally Rooney’s Normal People, the British Isles has been literary strongholds for ...
Vor einem Tag · Author Evelyn Waugh was once resident in nearby Stinchcombe, though he hadn’t a good word to say for the place. And it was hereabouts that Sir Isaac Pitman invented his shorthand.
Vor 5 Tagen · One of these characters, a certain Youkoumian, is the anti-hero of Evelyn Waugh’s comic novel ” Black Mischief, ” set in a fictional Ethiopia in the 1930s… —BBC Radio 4 Extra have announced the rebroadcast of their 4-episode adaptation of Brideshead Revisited from 2003 (Waugh’s centenary year). This will start on 14 June. Here are ...
Vor 5 Tagen · The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family ...
