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Hace 5 días · 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’. David Mills, February 22, 2023. He spoke about it flippantly when he was a dissolute and essentially pagan high school student.
Hace 4 días · Several far-better known and experienced reviewers than I have written on Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honor Trilogy, noting the resemblance of its major romantic sub-plot to the prophet Hosea while at the same time generally consigning the majority of the military misadventures, the bulk of the story, to the waste bin as, at most, an amusing distraction from the Hosea plot and, at worst, a ...
Hace 1 día · Evelyn Waugh. Professor Joseph Pearce discusses the intricacies of Evelyn Waugh’s renowned novel, Brideshead Revisited, exploring its themes of divine grace and societal decadence. Through his intuitive analysis, Pearce sheds light on Waugh’s profound exploration of faith, conversion, and the complexities of human relationships in a ...
Hace 9 horas · ‘It's a different rhythm and way of life, it’s quite intense,’ says Lady Carnarvon of those summer months when Hollywood comes to Hampshire.Perhaps she is thinking of her labradors pinching sandwiches from the crew’s tea-time trestle tables, or her husband Geordie, 8th Earl of Carnarvon, engaging in a minor skirmish with a set-dressing palm tree (something to which Evelyn Waugh could ...
Hace 3 días · Bella Fleace loves parties. Evelyn Waugh's story about a plucky senior lady! Her young cousin and heir was disrespectful to her, so she made a plan ...
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Hace 2 días · How the Duke of Westminster's great-uncle was a 'bully' who conspired to have his married brother-in-law thrown out of Britain because he was secretly gay - a scandal that inspired Evelyn Waugh's ...
Hace 9 horas · Journalist and novelist Auberon Waugh, the eldest son of Evelyn Waugh (who had never been given a step up in life) dubbed it the “Lemon Prize”; prominent literary critic A.S. Byatt, who ...
