Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
Autor/a de Brideshead Revisited
Sobre l'autor
Born in Hampstead and educated at Oxford University, Evelyn Waugh came from a literary family. His elder brother, Alec was a novelist, and his father, Arthur Waugh, was the influential head of a large publishing house. Even in his school days, Waugh showed sings of the profound belief in mostra'n més Catholicism and brilliant wit that were to mark his later years. Waugh began publishing his novels in the late 1920's. He joined the Royal Marines at the beginning of World War II and was one of the first to volunteer for commando service. In 1944 he survived a plane crash in Yugoslavia and, while hiding in a cave, corrected the proofs of one of his novels. Waugh's early novels, Decline and Fall (1927), Vile Bodies (1930), and A Handful of Dust (1934), established him as one of the funniest and most brilliant satirists the British had seen in years. He was particularly skillful at poking fun at the scramble for prominence among the upper classes and the struggle between the generations. He lived for a while in Hollywood, about which he wrote The Loved One (1948), a scathing attack on the United States's overly sentimental funeral practices. His greatest works, however, are Brideshead Revisited (1945), which has been made into a highly popular television miniseries, and the trilogy Sword of Honor (1965), composed of Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955), and The End of the Battle (1961). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Evelyn Waugh
Comedies; Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Put Out More Flags, Scoop (1999) 12 exemplars
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Essays, Articles, and Reviews 1922-1934: Volume 26 (2018) 6 exemplars
P.R.B. An Essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1847-1854 [Waugh, Evelyn- Waugh's Own Copy with Inscriptions] (1926) 3 exemplars
Verhalen die Hitchcock koos 3 3 exemplars
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing [short story] 2 exemplars
The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Personal Writings 1903-1921: Precocious Waughs: Volume 30 (2017) 2 exemplars
Bella Fleace Gave a Party [short story] 2 exemplars
Tactical exercise [short story] 2 exemplars
On Guard [short story] 2 exemplars
Cruise [short story] 2 exemplars
The Paris Review no. 30 : Evelyn Waugh 1 exemplars
Conduite scandaleuse 1 exemplars
Vile Bodies | The Loved One 1 exemplars
Evelyn Waugh and his world 1 exemplars
Rosetti, His Life and Works 1 exemplars
Brideshead revisited ... Revised edition 1 exemplars
Prose. Memoirs. Essays 1 exemplars
A Handful of Dust | Put Out More Flags 1 exemplars
Сборник 1 exemplars
2008 1 exemplars
Charles Ryder's School Days [short story] 1 exemplars
Stainless Stanley : [poem] 1 exemplars
Incident in Azania [short story] 1 exemplars
Period Piece [short story] 1 exemplars
Out of Depth [short story] 1 exemplars
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and Others 1 exemplars
Winner Takes All [short fiction] 1 exemplars
By Special Request [short story] 1 exemplars
Love in the Slump [short story] 1 exemplars
Excursion in Reality [short story] 1 exemplars
The death of painting 1 exemplars
The Balance [Short story] 1 exemplars
An Englishman's Home [Short Story] 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Man of Property (1906) — Introducció, algunes edicions; Prefaci, algunes edicions — 1,044 exemplars
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 551 exemplars
Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1956) — Col·laborador — 427 exemplars
Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places (Adrenaline) (1999) — Col·laborador — 59 exemplars
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
The Paris Review 30 1963 Summer-Fall — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Brideshead Revisited, Volume One [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 2 exemplars
Brideshead Revisited, Volume Two [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 1 exemplars
Brideshead Revisited, Volume Four [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 1 exemplars
Brideshead Revisited, Volume Three [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 1 exemplars
Brideshead Revisited, Episode 11 [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 1 exemplars
Brideshead Revisited, Volume Five [1981 TV miniseries] — Original novel — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Waugh, Arthur Evelyn St. John
- Data de naixement
- 1903-10-28
- Data de defunció
- 1966-04-10
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Combe Florey, Somerset, England
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Combe Florey, Somerset, England, UK
- Causa de la mort
- heart failure
- Llocs de residència
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
Combe Florey, Somerset, England, UK
Gloucestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educació
- Lancing College
Oxford University (Hertford College)
Heatherley School of Fine Art
Holborn Polytechnic - Professions
- writer
teacher
journalist
literary critic
military officer - Relacions
- Waugh, Arthur (father)
Waugh, Alec (brother)
Waugh, Auberon (son)
Waugh, Alexander (grandson)
Burghclere, Lady (mother-in-law)
Herbert, Aubrey (father-in-law) (mostra-les totes 19)
D'Arms, John H. (son-in-law)
Mitford, Nancy (friend)
Roxburgh, J. F. (teacher)
Guinness, Bryan (friend)
Cooper, Diana (friend)
Cooper, Duff (friend)
Knox, Ronald (friend)
Fielding, Daphne (friend)
Cockburn, Claud (second cousin)
Caudwell, Sarah (second cousin once removed)
Cockburn, Alexander (second cousin once removed)
Cockburn, Andrew (second cousin once removed)
Cockburn, Patrick (second cousin once removed) - Organitzacions
- Royal Marines
Royal Horse Guards - Premis i honors
- Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
Membres
Converses
October 2021: Evelyn Waugh a Monthly Author Reads (novembre 2021)
Group Read, November 2018: A Handful of Dust a 1001 Books to read before you die (desembre 2018)
Ressenyes
Elena. La madre dell'imperatore de EVELYN WAUGH
TBB-4
En un entorn postmortem (de persones i animals) hi ha una història d'amor
Cal anar-hi trobant el ritme, però quan l'agafes és entretinguda i curiosa. Antiga en estructura i argument, però amb una curiosa reflexió sobre la feina dels mitjans de comunicació.
El retorno de Charles Ryder a Brideshead —la elegante mansión de lord Marchmain, convertida ahora en cuartel— devuelve a su memoria aquellos tiempos, anteriores a la guerra, en que paseaba embelesado por sus hermosos jardines y salones y se dejaba sucumbir al hechizo de sus singulares habitantes. En realidad, nunca pudo Charles librarse de su ambigua amistad con el inquieto Sebastian, ni de su obsesivo amor por la hermana de éste, lady Julia, ni de la oscura y contradictoria fatalidad que dejó marcada para siempre la atribulada vida de los Marchmain con su huella de drama y desvarío.
Retorno a Brideshead, una de las novelas más importantes de la aclamada obra del célebre escritor inglés, fue motivo de una espléndida serie televisiva, interpretada entre otros, por Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom y Stépahne Audran, que obtuvo un enorme éxito mundial.
[Font: http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/maxi-retorno-a-brideshead-maxi]… (més)
Retorno a Brideshead, una de las novelas más importantes de la aclamada obra del célebre escritor inglés, fue motivo de una espléndida serie televisiva, interpretada entre otros, por Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom y Stépahne Audran, que obtuvo un enorme éxito mundial.
[Font: http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/maxi-retorno-a-brideshead-maxi]… (més)
Llistes
THE WAR ROOM (2)
Best Satire (1)
Fiction For Men (1)
United Kingdom (1)
Franklit (1)
1920s (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Ambleside Books (1)
Metafiction (1)
Read This Next (1)
First Novels (1)
AP Lit (1)
A Novel Cure (2)
Favourite Books (2)
1940s (2)
1930s (3)
War Literature (4)
Folio Society (4)
BBC Big Read (1)
Unread books (1)
BBC Top Books (1)
Didactic Fiction (1)
Art of Reading (1)
Elegant Prose (1)
Sense of place (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 124
- També de
- 73
- Membres
- 45,924
- Popularitat
- #350
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 830
- ISBN
- 981
- Llengües
- 26
- Preferit
- 291
