Biography EssayArthur 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 c...
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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 w...
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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh 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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Literature must have seemed a predestined interest for Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, whose father, Arthur Waugh, was an author as well as head of the publishing firm of Chapman and Hall. Born in the L...
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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 Brideshe...
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Three armed men hijacked a regional bus Tuesday in northern Italy and set it on fire after freeing the passengers, officials said. An off-duty police officer was injured and two of the three hijack...
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An assailant threw a hand grenade at a top Somali military officer in Mogadishu on Wednesday, but missed the official and killed a civilian and wounded two government soldiers instead, police said....
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A tour bus of U.S. senior citizens defended themselves against a group of alleged muggers, sending two of them fleeing and killing a third in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said on Thursd...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Suspected separatists attacked a camp of Myanmar
construction workers in Thailand's troubled deep South, killing three
of the labourers one of whom was decap...
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Villagers in northern China have dug up the remains of fellow
protesters in a bid to get more compensation for casualties incurred
in a 2005 crackdown relating to a land dispute, a Hong Kong-...
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Manila (dpa) - Two men armed with grenades and guns on Wednesday
held hostage 30 children and four teachers aboard a bus that was
rented for a field trip in the Philippines....
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ATHENS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Greek police hunted a suspected
drug smuggling gang on the island of Crete on Tuesday after
three officers were wounded in a mountain ambush this week. The incident highl...
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Athens (dpa) - A military plane carrying special police forces
arrived on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete Tuesday to join
the hunt for gunmen who shot three offic...
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MANILA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - A Manila court sentenced 14
members of Muslim militant group Abu Sayyaf to life in prison
on Thursday for the kidnapping of 20 people from a beach resort
in 2001 and the ...
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Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
Evelyn (Arthur St. John) Waugh
Gunmen hijack bus in northern Italy
