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| Name: |
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh | | Birth Date: |
October 28, 1903 | | Death Date: |
April 10, 1966 | | Place of Birth: |
London, England | | Place of Death: |
Somerset, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
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Biography of Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
1040 words, approx. 3.5 pages
 The English author Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (1903-1966) ranks as one of the outstanding satiric novelists of the 20th century. Hilariously savage wit and complete command of the English language were hallmarks of his style. Evelyn Waugh was born in L...
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Biography of Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
7911 words, approx. 26.4 pages
 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born on 28 October 1903 in Hampstead, England, and grew up in a comfortable middle-class London suburb, the son of Arthur Waugh, a well-known literary critic and publisher, and Catherine Charlotte Raban Waugh. He recalled...
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Biography of Evelyn (Arthur St. John) Waugh
7726 words, approx. 25.8 pages
 A major figure in twentieth-century British literature, Evelyn Waugh captured in his novels the attitudes, foibles, and virtues of the British upper classes. From the nostalgic romanticism of Brideshead Revisited (1945) to the black comedy of The Loved O...



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Brideshead Revisited Summary
193 words, approx. 1 pages The lavish adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited was fashioned by Granada Television and first aired on the British channel, ITV, in 1981. Comprising 11 episodes of some 50 minutes each, it chronicles the relationship of a...
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Brideshead Revisited Summary
6,707 words, approx. 22 pages Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in London on October 28, 1903. His father, Arthur Waugh, was the director of the Chapman and Hall publishing company. Educated first at Lancing College and then at Oxford, Evelyn...
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Brideshead Revisited Information
2,307 words, approx. 8 pages
 Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. Waugh wrote that the novel "deals with what is theologically termed 'the operation of Grace', that...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Frank Kermode
4,538 words, approx. 15 pages
 Kermode is an English educator, literary critic, essayist, and editor. In the following essay, he examines Waugh's depiction of religious faith in England after the Reformation, particularly the place of Catholicism among the upper classes in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as represented in Brideshead Revisited.
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Critical Essay by David Leon Higdon
3,870 words, approx. 13 pages
 Higdon is an American writer and educator. In the following essay, he argues that Brideshead Revisited depicts very deliberate homosexual relationships, contrary to the opinions of other critics, whom Higdon considers deeply in denial.
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Critical Essay by Charles Hallett
1,999 words, approx. 7 pages
 In the following essay, Hallett examines Charles Ryder's reaction in Brideshead Revisited to the Catholicism of the Flyte family.
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Brideshead Revisited
2,270 words, approx. 8 pages
 Every novel Evelyn Waugh wrote could be called autobiographical. Waugh led a life very similar to Charles Ryder, the narrator of one of his best novels, Brideshead Revisited. Every other major character found in the novel has also been designated one or more human counterpart.


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