- Title: Evelyn Waugh The Later Years 1939-1966
- Author: Martin Stannard
- Year Published: 1992/This Edition: 1994 (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Year Purchased: 2000?
- Source: Barnes & Noble clearance rack
- About: I’m currently on a Bright Young Things reading binge; although it focuses on Waugh’s mature years, this book almost instantly came to mind. It is one of the better biographies present on my sagging shelves. A potent reminder that he was more than just the writer of Brideshead Revisited (which, if it came down to that, wouldn’t be such a bad thing), Stannard succeeds in making the complex yet usually unapproachable Waugh, for good and bad, seem human. It is a masterly work.
- Motivation: I collect dead writer biographies like kids collect toys.
- Times Read: 1
- Random Excerpt/Page 170: “The delay in departure was all Waugh needed to fire his imagination. There was, he felt, a story in this about everything that had troubled him since leaving the army, and Scott-King’s Modern Europe was to be his revenge on his hosts.”
- Happiness Scale: 9
Portrait of Evelyn Waugh (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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I love Waugh. In university, he had a girlfriend also named Evelyn. They were called he-evelyn and she-evelyn.
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I know, that was his first wife Evelyn Gardner. Every time I read the words “He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn” I chuckle. I cannot help myself. Thanks for the reminder!
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