Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
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Born in Hampstead and educated at Oxford University, Evelyn Waugh came from a literary family. His elder brother, Alec was a novelist, and his father, Arthur Waugh, was the influential head of a large publishing house. Even in his school days, Waugh showed sings of the profound belief in visa mer Catholicism and brilliant wit that were to mark his later years. Waugh began publishing his novels in the late 1920's. He joined the Royal Marines at the beginning of World War II and was one of the first to volunteer for commando service. In 1944 he survived a plane crash in Yugoslavia and, while hiding in a cave, corrected the proofs of one of his novels. Waugh's early novels, Decline and Fall (1927), Vile Bodies (1930), and A Handful of Dust (1934), established him as one of the funniest and most brilliant satirists the British had seen in years. He was particularly skillful at poking fun at the scramble for prominence among the upper classes and the struggle between the generations. He lived for a while in Hollywood, about which he wrote The Loved One (1948), a scathing attack on the United States's overly sentimental funeral practices. His greatest works, however, are Brideshead Revisited (1945), which has been made into a highly popular television miniseries, and the trilogy Sword of Honor (1965), composed of Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955), and The End of the Battle (1961). (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Serier
Verk av Evelyn Waugh
Comedies; Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Put Out More Flags, Scoop (1999) 12 exemplar
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Essays, Articles, and Reviews 1922-1934: Volume 26 (2018) 5 exemplar
Verhalen die Hitchcock koos 3 3 exemplar
P.R.B. An Essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1847-1854 [Waugh, Evelyn- Waugh's Own Copy with Inscriptions] (1926) 3 exemplar
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Personal Writings 1903-1921: Precocious Waughs: Volume 30 (2017) 2 exemplar
Tactical exercise [short story] 2 exemplar
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing [short story] 2 exemplar
Cruise [short story] 2 exemplar
Bella Fleace Gave a Party [short story] 2 exemplar
On Guard [short story] 2 exemplar
Conduite scandaleuse 1 exemplar
The Paris Review no. 30 : Evelyn Waugh 1 exemplar
Evelyn Waugh and his world 1 exemplar
Prose. Memoirs. Essays 1 exemplar
A Handful of Dust | Put Out More Flags 1 exemplar
Сборник 1 exemplar
Vile Bodies | The Loved One 1 exemplar
2008 1 exemplar
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and Others 1 exemplar
Out of Depth [short story] 1 exemplar
Stainless Stanley : [poem] 1 exemplar
Incident in Azania [short story] 1 exemplar
Period Piece [short story] 1 exemplar
Charles Ryder's School Days [short story] 1 exemplar
Winner Takes All [short fiction] 1 exemplar
By Special Request [short story] 1 exemplar
Love in the Slump [short story] 1 exemplar
Excursion in Reality [short story] 1 exemplar
The death of painting 1 exemplar
The Balance [Short story] 1 exemplar
An Englishman's Home [Short Story] 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 550 exemplar
Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 427 exemplar
Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places (Adrenaline) (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 58 exemplar
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
The Paris Review 30 1963 Summer-Fall — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Brideshead Revisited, Volume One [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 2 exemplar
Brideshead Revisited, Volume Two [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 1 exemplar
Brideshead Revisited, Volume Four [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 1 exemplar
Brideshead Revisited, Volume Three [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 1 exemplar
Brideshead Revisited, Episode 11 [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 1 exemplar
Brideshead Revisited, Volume Five [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Waugh, Arthur Evelyn St. John
- Födelsedag
- 1903-10-28
- Avled
- 1966-04-10
- Begravningsplats
- Combe Florey, Somerset, England
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Storbritannien
- Land (för karta)
- England, UK
- Födelseort
- London, England, Storbritannien
- Dödsort
- Combe Florey, Somerset, England, Storbritannien
- Dödsorsak
- heart failure
- Bostadsorter
- Hampstead, London, England, Storbritannien
Combe Florey, Somerset, England, Storbritannien
Gloucestershire, England, Storbritannien - Utbildning
- Lancing College
Oxfords universitet (Hertford College) - Yrken
- målare
novelist - Relationer
- Waugh, Arthur (far)
Waugh, Alec (bror)
Waugh, Auberon (son)
Waugh, Alexander (sonson)
Caudwell, Sarah (first cousin once removed)
Burghclere, Lady (svärmor) (visa alla 8)
Cockburn, Claud (kusin)
Herbert, Aubrey (svärfar) - Organisationer
- Katolska kyrkan
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
October 2021: Evelyn Waugh i Monthly Author Reads (november 2021)
Group Read, November 2018: A Handful of Dust i 1001 Books to read before you die (december 2018)
Recensioner
Listor
Favourite Books (2)
THE WAR ROOM (2)
First Novels (1)
Best Satire (1)
United Kingdom (1)
Franklit (1)
Fiction For Men (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
AP Lit (1)
Ambleside Books (1)
Read This Next (1)
Metafiction (1)
1920s (1)
Sense of place (1)
A Novel Cure (2)
Elegant Prose (1)
1940s (2)
1930s (3)
War Literature (4)
Folio Society (4)
BBC Big Read (1)
BBC Top Books (1)
Unread books (1)
Didactic Fiction (1)
Art of Reading (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 122
- Även av
- 73
- Medlemmar
- 45,730
- Popularitet
- #354
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 832
- ISBN
- 980
- Språk
- 26
- Favoritmärkt
- 291
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