The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh

The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh

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Summary

The diaries of English novelist Evelyn Waugh, telling of life in the 1920s, travel in Africa and South America, the English aristocracy, military life and post war America.

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The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh

Travel in Africa,the English aristocracy,the bungling and courage of military life,post-1945 America, all these are favourable sites for the diaries of one of the harshest and funniest English novelists of this century.

Evelyn Waugh

Sara Haslam is Professor of 20th Century Literature at the Open University. Her research has driven C21st critical reassessment of Ford Madox Ford, on whom she has published for 20 years, most recently as co-editor of the Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford (2019). She has edited Ford's
fiction and non-fiction and, as editor of A Man Could Stand Up (Carcanet, 2010), she contributed to the first annotated critical edition of Ford's First World War masterpiece, Parade's End (1924-28). Also a specialist in First World War literature, she is currently researching what she has termed
war-time 'literary caregiving'. Her article on Helen Mary Gaskell's War Library was published in 2018; her co-written 'Medicinable Literature: Bibliotherapy, Literary Caregiving and the First World War' is forthcoming in Literature and Medicine. A member of the Waugh project since 2013, she has
written blogs for the 'Waugh and Words' series about her experience of editing Helena.

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ISBN 13 9781857992441
ISBN 10 185799244X
Title The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
Author Evelyn Waugh
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 1995-06-05
Number of pages 832
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.