Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
Evelyn Waugh And The Secrets Of Brideshead Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war, it was the story of a household, a family and a journey of religious faith - an elegy for a vanishing world and a testimony to a family he...
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Evelyn Waugh And The Secrets Of Brideshead Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war, it was the story of a household, a family and a journey of religious faith - an elegy for a vanishing world and a testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. In this engrossing biography, Paula Byrne sets out to capture Waugh through the friendships and loves that mattered most to him. She uncovers a man who, far from the snobbish misanthropist of popular caricature, was as loving and complex as the family that inspired him.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060881306 (0060881305)
ASIN: 60881305
Publish date: March 30th 2010
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Paula Byrne set out to write this book because she believed that [a:Evelyn Waugh|11315|Evelyn Waugh|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1357463949p2/11315.jpg] had been consistently misrepresented as a snob and a curmudgeonly misanthropist. I, for one, am very glad that she did. Paula Byrne eschews the...
Please read my full review here: http://cineastesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2010/09/review-mad-world-by-paula-byrne.html
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