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Article: Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years, 1939-1966.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 2, 1992
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ALL THE early reviews of this book that I have seen have made a point of distinguishing sharply between the biographical subject and his writings. The work remains (rather amazingly) praiseworthy in polite company, while Waugh himself earns obligatory condemnation as a reactionary, a snob, and a religious bigot. A number of reviewers have insisted that Evelyn Waugh was nobody you would want to entertain in your home. I disagree. I have the pleasure of knowing a few Wauvian characters, and wish I knew more. They are the only sort of people I take an interest in associating with, beyond a few game wardens, Western sheriffs, and a congenial barmaid or two. Volume II of ...
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Article: Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years.
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August 14, 1992 ;
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... ... deal about the external facts of Evelyn Waugh's life. After nearly two decades ... conceivable scrap of information about Evelyn Waugh, he has completed the second and ... authorized and scandalously sloply Evelyn Waugh: A life (1975). While Stannard ...
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