Evelyn Waugh : A Life Revisited

from etxgardener

There are two camps of people. Those who like to red literary biographies to obtain a decoder ring (so to speak) for an author's works of fiction an those who would prefer to remain in the dark. I am definitely in the former camp. PhilipEade's new biography of Evelyn Waugh proveds an excellent de...

from AnnShirley

Philip Eade's Evelyn Waugh: a life revisited is a celebrity biography, fast-paced and entertaining. Eade provides lots of quotes from Waugh's letters, his friends and enemies, aristocratic parvenus and aristocrats, and Catholics and Catholic converts. Eade is sympathetic to Waugh's confounding ir...

from michaelg16

I have been reading and greatly enjoying Waugh for many years and I sat rapt as a young man as Brideshead Revisted was broadcast week after week on PBS in the 1980's. Through the years I have read many things about Waugh and his circle, so this biography was less than enlightening for me though i...

from SigmundFraud

It was time for a new biography of Evelyn Waugh and this one does justice to him and his writing. I happen to love mid century English writers and Waugh is one of the best along with some of my other favorites like Nancy Mitford, Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham. The biography is exhaustive and...

from chrisac

My previous knowledge of Evelyn Waugh was his authorship of "Brideshead Revisited" which was the television event of the early 1980s, which starred Jeremy Irons in one of his first big roles. I was curious to learn more about Evelyn Waugh's life, which was why I put in for an Early Reviewers copy...