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...

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...

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...

THROUGH the doors of Kensington Town Hall they pour in their Hawkwind T-shirts and non-reversed baseball caps. Over the course of one day, more than 2,000 wargamers from up and down the land have pushed themselves past stalls, book stacks and tables laden with...

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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 hijackers were apprehended.The bus was traveling south from Alessandria to Acqui Terme,...

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.At least three other people died and 13 suffered wounds from violence in or...