As Brideshead Revisited turns 80, how Evelyn Waugh took inspiration from a tragic aristocrat in creating his own waywardly-eccentric Sebastian Flyte in his iconic novel of upper class foibles ...

Illustration: Nishant Choksi. May 29th 2025. ... Britain’s other great 20th-century Catholic novelist was Evelyn Waugh, and the article mentioned Farm Street Church in Mayfair.

• Nicholas Olsberg, The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times, Lund Humphries, 432pp, 270 colour & 157 b/w illustrations, £60 (hb), published 10 October 2024 Books Architecture 19th ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: artisteer / Getty. June 18, 2024. Share. Save. ... Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, say—Fleet Street is a fundamentally corrupt and tawdry place.

Portrait of Evelyn Waugh from December 1940. Evelyn Waugh was one of those characters that English literature throws up now and again, who put a special stamp on the times, like Dean Swift or Dr.

Evelyn Waugh outfit International Literary Properites has bought Somerset Maugham's estate and is touring LA. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD You will be redirected back to your article in seconds ...

Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of DustWhen Brenda Last embarks on an affair, it's the talk of London society sparking tragic consequences. ... An illustration of a computer application window Wayback ...

A pure style like Waugh’s develops at a desk, not the bustle of the world. At Oxford he never stopped working on that “something inside me”; that diligence, not drunkenness, is why he never finished ...

A meditation on ‘divine grace’, a hymn to the ‘splendours of the recent past’ – this is how Evelyn Waugh described his 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited.The grace is more earthbound, the splendours more ...

He did book jackets for Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis and illustrated Black Mischief and Scoop for the Folio Society; ... Because illustration is now the preserve of children's books, ...

In 1937, the novelist Evelyn Waugh moved into Piers Court, a Georgian manor house near the town of Dursley, in the Cotswolds countryside. The house, a wedding gift from Waugh’s in-laws, sits on ...