Evelyn Waugh (Vintage Lives)

by SelinaHastings (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $3.38

  This is a biography of Evelyn Waugh. 'Be assured that you would be unlikely to find a more entertaining, delightful or rewarding book on Waugh if you were to search...or the next twenty years. The narrative is at once gripping and thoughtful on every page.' - Mail On Sunday . 'A brilliant, three-dimensional portrait.' - Country Life .

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  Paperback
  1995

  $3.38

  This biography of Evelyn Waugh traces the career of a writer who, though respected, was always controversial and undoubtedly eccentric. In particular it focuses on his difficult relationship with his father, his homosexual affair at Oxford, his unhappy first marriage to Evelyn Gardner, his years of sexual adventure before his second marriage, his attitude to the Church, his conversion to Catholicism, his disastrous relationship with the military, and his enduring but difficult friendships with his three favourite women - Nancy Mitford, Diana Cooper and Ann Fleming.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.38

  This biography of Evelyn Waugh, written with the full co-operation of the family and making use of a mass of unpublished letters and diaries, traces the remarkable career of a writer who, though respected, was always controversial and undoubtedly eccentric. In particular, it sheds new light on his difficult relationship with his father, his homosexual affair at Oxford, his unhappy first marriage to Evelyn Gardner, and his years of sexual adventure before his second marriage. Hastings also uncovers his attitude to the Church, his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his disastrous relationship with the military, and his enduring, but difficult, friendships with his three favourite women: Nancy Mitford, Diana Cooper and Ann Fleming.