Few readers, however, are acquainted with Waugh’s memoir of his stint as a London Daily Mail correspondent in Abyssinia now Ethiopia during the Italian invasion in the 1930s. They swear by and along with generations of general readers laugh at the zany antics of reporters in fictional Ishmaelia. Scoop is the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a bible. This edition contains the original illustrations to ‘Love Among the Ruins,’ as well as more than thirty graphics produced by the author as an Oxford undergraduate in the 1920s. Loveday’s Little Outing’ and ‘Scott King’s Modern Europe’ an alternative ending to Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust a ‘missing chapter’ in the life of Charles Ryder, the hero of Brideshead Revisited and two linked stories, remnants of an abandoned novel that Waugh considered his best writing. The thirty nine stories collected here include such small masterpieces as ‘Mr. We find in them Waugh’s almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the minutiae of human absurdity, as well as his worldly knowledge, his tenderness, his perceptive compassion, and his sophisticated, disabused, but nevertheless forceful idealism.
By turns romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisitedtranscends Waugh s familiar satiric exploration of English society and mores, revealing an elegiac, lyrical writer of the most lucid and profound feeling.Įvelyn Waugh’s short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the world of Waugh s own youth, but it is also a story about religious and secular love, about the notions of sin and judgment, guilt and punishment and how, almost unaccountably, they can give shape to one s life.
The novel Waugh thought of as his magnum opus, it is the story of the intense entanglement of a young, middle class Englishman, Charles Ryder, with a wealthy, eccentric Anglo Catholic family, the Marchmains: in particular, with Sebastian, the flamboyant young man Charles meets at Oxford in the 1920s and Sebastian s sister Julia, who will become the great and unrequited love of Charles s life. Opens July 2008.Įvelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama of extraordinary richness and depth. Soon to be a major motion picture from Miramax Films, starring Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw, and Matthew Good, and directed by Julian Jarrold.
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