This book is a literary biography focusing on the first third of Evelyn Waugh's life. Between his birth in 1903 and the end of his formal education in 1924, Waugh grew up in suburban London, went to school at Lancing College, and attended Oxford University. These experiences were crucial, in that they began to form the mind and character of a man who later became famous as a novelist. Waugh's experience, however, is only part of the story. By the...