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Evelyn Waugh

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Biography

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: author

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Biography of Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
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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...
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Biography of Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
7,911 words, approx. 26 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...
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Biography of Evelyn (Arthur St. John) Waugh
7,726 words, approx. 26 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...
 


Quotations
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Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh ( 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966 ) was an English satirical novelist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Decline and Fall (1928) 1.2 Scoop (1938) 1.3 Brideshead Revisited (1945) 2 Unsourced 3 Misattributed 4 Quotes about Waugh 5...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Evelyn Waugh Information
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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (IPA: /ˈiːvlɪn ˈwɔː/) (October 28 1903 – April 10 1966) was an English writer, best known for such satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust and The Loved One, as well as for...


News and Journals
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Catholic Insight
Waughs in decline.(Evelyn Waugh)
01/01/2007: 1,426 words, approx. 5 pages
In his biography of Evelyn Waugh, possibly the greatest English novelist of the twentieth century, Christopher Sykes writes that "Waugh regarded September 1930 as marking the most important event of his life: his reception into the Roman Catholic Church." From Father Martin D'Acry,...
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The Washington Post
Evelyn Waugh Revisited
08/16/1987: 1,769 words, approx. 6 pages
EVELYN WAUGH The Early Years 1903-1939 By Martin Stannard Norton. 537 pp. $24.95 EVELYN WAUGH has enjoyed a run of good luck ever since he dropped dead on Easter Sunday in 1966. In relatively rapid order Christopher Sykes brought out a hefty, authorized...
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The New York Observer
Clive James\'d5 20th-Century Tutorial
3/18/2007: 1,047 words, approx. 4 pages
Clive James has a high-maintenance girlfriend: the reader. To educate this girlfriend, to correct her wayward mind and haphazard schooling, he has written more than 100 loosely related essays on artists, intellectuals and tyrants, mostly of the 20th century—a crash course in modern history and...
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AP News
Today in history - March 29
3/28/2007: 488 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Thursday, March 29, the 88th day of 2007. There are 277 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 29, 1973, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.On this date:In 1638, Swedish...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Robert R. Garrett
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In the following excerpt, Garrett explores the nature of the humor in Decline and Fall, praising Waugh's use of language and narrative structure.
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Critical Essay by Frederick L. Beaty
7,877 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Beaty analyzes the ironic tone of Decline and Fall.
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Critical Essay by Alain Blayac
7,195 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Blayac explains the classical meaning of "humor," rooted in the theory of the four humors of the human body, and applies it to Waugh's novels.
 


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