In his books, Evelyn Waugh was a giant of 20th Century English literature; in life, he was nasty, British and short. All three qualities were essential to Waugh`s persona, his art and his ...

David Pryce-Jones explores the novels of Evelyn Waugh and his special relationship with the author. Evelyn Waugh was one of those characters that English literature throws up now and again, who put a ...

Evelyn’s brother Alec Waugh wrote that it “could not mean anything ... by the science writer J.B.S. Haldane in his 1923 book Daedalus. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept in Brave New World.

Ever since I first read Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited as a master ... Although it is no longer fashionable to combine an author’s biography with literary criticism, it is certainly ...

Despite the fact that Brideshead Revisited—which introduces the “later or “serious Evelyn Waugh — has sold many more copies in the United States than all of Waugh’s other books put ...

His Evelyn Waugh is divided into two parts ... before the outbreak of the 1939-45 war in travelling and writing travel books. With great gallantry and persistence, although by this time 37 ...

Anthony Powell, a novelist whom British Critic V.S. Pritchett has ranked with Evelyn Waugh, and whom Evelyn ... than that they are well known to the author and he has not yet decided on the ...

Evelyn Waugh’s portrait of the artist as a middle-aged car crash. But really, as Pinfold goes on to say, ‘most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of ...