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Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited / Philip Eade.

Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited / Philip Eade.
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ISBN 9780297609483 (paperback)
9780297869207 (hardback)
Author Eade, Philip author.
Title Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited / Philip Eade.
Publisher/Date London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016.
©2016
Pagination etc. xxvi, 403 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 24 cm.
Summary Note Evelyn Waugh was described by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil. Waugh's literary reputation has continued to rise since Greene's assessment in 1966. Fifty years on from his death, Philip Eade takes a fresh look at this famously complex character and tells the full story of his dramatic, colourful and frequently bizarre life: his strained relationship with his sentimental father and blatantly favoured elder brother, and the burning ambition they provoked in him; his formative homosexual love affairs at Oxford; his disastrous first marriage and subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism; his unrequited love for the brightest of the bright young people; his complex interest in the aristocracy and what the aristocrats made of him; his insane bravery yet chequered wartime career; his drug-induced madness; his strangely successful second marriage; his unconventional attitude to his six children; his sharp tongue; his devastating wit; the love, fear and loathing that he variously inspired. Scrupulously researched and sympathetically written, this is a sparkling and compelling new biography of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century - and one of England's most mythologised eccentrics.
Subject - Name Waugh, Evelyn, -- 1903-1966
Subject Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
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