San Antonio College Library

A concise biography of Evelyn Waugh that includes information about his famous works.

This volume analyzes the link between the life and the written works of English writer Evelyn Waugh, who was best known for his darkly humorous and satirical novels. A few of his works clearly manifest his Catholic background. Many of Waugh's novels depict British aristocracy and high society, which he savagely satirizes but to which he was also strongly attracted. He used many experiences from his life to directly effect literary aspects of his writings....

"Waugh's life and his literary life exist in dynamic relationship. Virtually all of his fiction was autobiographical, yet he maintained that his novels were objects, unrelated to the life of their author." "This study traces the shifting relationship of ascertainable fact and imaginative fiction throughout Waugh's career, focusing on the endless negotiation he conducted between life and art, and on why, from being author of the anarchic, hilarious...

"George Orwell is best known for Animal Farm and 1984, Evelyn Waugh for Brideshead Revisited and comic novels like Scoop and Vile Bodies. However different they may seem, these two towering figures of twentieth-century literature are linked for the first time in this unconventional biography, which goes beyond the story of their amazing lives to reach the core of their beliefs - a shared vision that was startlingly prescient about our own troubled...

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...