[PDF] Evelyn Waugh Newsletter eBook

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : British
ISBN : 9781400040766

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Thirty years’ worth of Evelyn Waugh’s inimitable travel writings have been gathered together for the first time in one volume. Waugh’s accounts of his travels–spanning the years from 1929 to 1958–describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelist’s sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh pioneered the genre of modern travel writing in which the comic predicament of the traveler is as central as the world he encounters. He wrote with as sharp an eye for folly as for foliage, and a delight in the absurd, not least where his own comfort and dignity are concerned. From his fresh take on the well-traveled and hence already “fully labeled” Mediterranean region in Labels, to a close-up view of Haile Selassie’s coronation in Remote People, from a comically miserable stint in British Guiana.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141186399

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Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for The Times. It continues with subsequent travels throughout Africa, where natives rub shoulders with eccentric expatriates, settlers with Arab traders and dignitaries with monks. Interspersed with these colourful tales are three 'nightmares' which describe the vexations of travel, including returning home.

Author : John Howard Wilson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838638859

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This biography of Evelyn Waugh focuses on the early years and influences that molded his mind and character. The work discusses the early writings of Waugh and explains how his childhood experiences were very influential in how he confronted lifes dilemmas.

Author : Ronald R. Gray
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476649790

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This is a comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed novels of the twentieth century. It contains 175 entries on all aspects of the novel, covering such topics as the novel's main characters; cultural, literary, and political references; themes; organization; homosexuality; the novel's critical reception; and its film adaptions. It also pays particular attention to the importance of Catholicism in the story, discussing such subjects as sin, good and evil, divine grace, time, art, and love. A helpful list of recommended readings is included.

Author : Donat Gallagher
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611470498

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A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.