Others were delighted to see the back of it. Evelyn Waugh, the greatest English satirist of that century, was obsessed with class. In The White Lotus, the rich characters are “entitled” only ...

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most ...

The third route leads up the bank at the southern end of the lake. Stancombe was a short stroll from Evelyn Waugh’s home at Piers Court and the author, like Sebastian Flyte, surely rested ‘supine on a ...

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 ...

Its famous guests included writer Charles Dickens, playwright Noel Coward and novelist Evelyn Waugh, with the grand house said to have been the inspiration for the boy’s school Llanabba in his ...

By Will Lloyd Art is not fair. If they knew what his reputation was now that is the lesson Evelyn Waugh’s contemporaries would surely learn. His literary generation was pacifistic, left-wing, ...

‘Anovelist is condemned to produce a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery,’ reflects the beleaguered hero of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, ...

The Worcestershire countryside is lovely, steeped in history, and Madresfield’s stories are compelling. It was the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust (where it was doomed Tony Last’s ...

On The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh. And so in January 1947 Waugh set off for another one of what he called those “distant and barbarous places . . . where ideas uprooted from their traditions, become ...

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’ A ...

Mr Zahawi said that the tax authority had found him to be “careless and not deliberate”, tax-law terminology that Waugh would have enjoyed. Mr Sunak has asked his ethics adviser, Sir Laurie ...

At the height of their literary success, authors like Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark, Graham Greene and Flannery O'Connor reflected on themselves as sinners in need of grace. Waugh's first marriage ...