This eagerly awaited second volume completes the portrait of Evelyn Waugh, taking readers through his wartime experience, his most renowned works from Brideshead Revisited to the Sword of Honour trilogy, and his sudden death. Stannard draws on hundreds of unpublished sources to reveal the real Evelyn Waugh. Photographs.
The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. ...
Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark ended as the epitome of literary chic, one of the great writers of the twentieth century. It is a Cinderella story, the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her autobiography, CURRICULUM VITAE (1992), politely blurring the intensity of her darker moments: her relations ...
This is the first volume in a two-part biography of Evelyn Waugh. Waugh emerges as a complex, melancholy and isolated individual with a suprising capacity for warmth and a mordantly satirical disposition. This book analyzes Waugh's work as a novelist, journalist, biographer and travel writer.
This second volume of Martin Stannad's biography of Evelyn Waugh, following on from "The Early Years: 1903-1939", covers the period 1939 to 1966. It completes the portrait of Waugh and ranges from his war experiences to the writing of "Brideshead" and the "Sword of Honour" trilogy and ends with his death in 1966. This book looks at the private man ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Slow Dancer Press
Date Published: 1991
Description: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Independent poetry publication edited by crime writer John Harvey, known for his love of jazz and fondness for cats. 25 different poets are featured, including Kate Arnold, Erika Brady, Carolyn E Campbell, Shura Davison, Richard Frost, Eric Horsting, Lyn Lifshin, Roger McGough and others. Cover in very good condition despite a touch of shelf-wear, contents in excellent condition. Pages are clean and tidy throughout. No foxing, yellowing or damage. A light book ... read more
Description: First U.S. pb printing. Wraps, 8vo, 537 pp., illus. A tight, internally clean copy with some edgewear to wrappers, wrappers and page edges a bit dustsoiled. read more
Description: Very Good Plus. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A super copy of poetry and some prose. Several drawings illustrate the text. The spine is slightly sunned and there is very slight shelf wear to the card cover corners. A slight bump to the tail of the spine. Otherwise fresh, clean and tight. A very good copy. read more
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