biography
| name: |
Waugh, Evelyn (Arthur St John)
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pronunciation:
[waw]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–66)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and quickly established a reputation with such stylistically brilliant satirical novels as Decline and Fall (1928), Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934), and Scoop (1938). He became a Catholic in 1930, and his later books display a more serious attitude, as seen in the religious theme of Brideshead Revisited (1945), a nostalgic evocation of student days at Oxford, which was made into a successful television series. His ‘sword of honour’ trilogy, in which he analyses the eternal struggle between good and evil and a civilizations's; fight against barbarism, contains Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955), and Unconditional Surrender (1961). His diaries were published in 1976, and his letters in 1980. |
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