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Waugh in Abyssinia

Waugh in Abyssinia

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh. EVELYN WAUGH Waugh in Abyssinia PENGUIN BOOKS Contents I The Intelligent Woman's Guide to the Ethiopian Question. EVELYN WAUGH Waugh in Abyssinia.
Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

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'The Letters of Evelyn Waugh' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980). BRADBURY, MALCOLM, 'Evelyn Waugh' (Oliver & Boyd, 1964), Writers and Critics series. CARENS, JAMES F., 'The Satiric Art of Evelyn Waugh' (Seattle and London, University of ...
Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family

Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family

Michael G. Brennan

In addition, the book goes on to consider how Evelyn Waugh's descendants - his son Auberon and his grandson Alexander Waugh - have echoed and developed these literary concerns in their own writing.
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust; from a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of ...
Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr

Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr

Evelyn Waugh

Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to the man he revered as a poet, scholar, hero and martyr.
Remote People

Remote People

Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for The ...
Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds.
A Handful of Dust

A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

From Work Suspended, where Plant, a writer of detective fiction, puts his incomplete novel in a drawer until such time as he can finish it (that is to say after the war), to Basil Seal Rides Again, in which the hero of Black Mischief ...
When the Going Was Good

When the Going Was Good

Evelyn Waugh

In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in 1930; his travels in Aden, Zanzibar, ...
Fragments from an Inner Life: The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill

Fragments from an Inner Life: The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill

The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill Evelyn Underhill Dana Greene. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My work on the life of Evelyn Underhill has spanned a decade, and the persons to whom I am grateful for support and encouragement are too ...
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (TEXT ...

Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (TEXT ...

Paula Byrne

A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England’s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and ...
The Witch of Exmoor

The Witch of Exmoor

Margaret Drabble

In a “profoundly moving, intellectually acute” novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is “as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh” (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three ...
Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh

The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties ...
Bed of Roses

Bed of Roses

Daisy Waugh

A fun, feelgood romp of country life from bestselling author Daisy Waugh
Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts

Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts

Naomi Milthorpe

Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (London: Penguin, 2000), 8. 2. Reggie Oliver, Out of the Woodshed: The Life of Stella Gibbons (London: Bloomsbury, 1998), 111. Faye Hammill and Jonathan Greenberg both note this in discussing Cold ...
I Am the Utterance of My Name: Black Victorian Feminist ...

I Am the Utterance of My Name: Black Victorian Feminist ...

Temple Tsenes-Hills

100 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent (New York: Harvard University Press, 1993) 5101 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 5. 102 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 49. 103 Evelyn ...
Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History

Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History

Alexander Waugh

Fresh and accessible, entertaining and informative, this volume by Alexander Waugh recounts the flops and follies, triumphs and fears, crackpot theories and wondrous discoveries that have shaped the way humans have conceived of time since ...
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family At War

The House of Wittgenstein: A Family At War

Alexander Waugh

In this dramatic historical and psychological epic, Alexander Waugh traces the triumphs and vicissitudes of a family held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts of loyalty and the cataclysmic ...
Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy

Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy

Evelyn Underhill

... Albany, N.Y., 12246 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Underbill, Evelyn, 1875-1941. Evelyn Underbill: modern guide to the ancient quest for the holy / edited and with an introduction by Dana Greene, p. cm. Bibliography: p.
Michigan Ensian

Michigan Ensian

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Catherine Zimmer Katheryn Kunert . Evelyn Borgerding Frances Johnson Helen Haapamaki Jane Robinson Norma Bockelman Ada Blackman Evelyn Borgerding Annete Cummings Dorothy Davis Evelyn Decker Alice Deming Phyllis Diehl ...
Evelyn Underhill: Spirituality for Daily Living

Evelyn Underhill: Spirituality for Daily Living

Annice Callahan

Artist Dana Greene. Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life. New York: Crossroad, 1990. Cloud Evelyn Underbill. Introduction. A Book of Contemplation the Which is Called the Cloud of Unknowing, in the Which a Soul is Oned with God.
Tate and allied families of Robertson County, Tennessee

Tate and allied families of Robertson County, Tennessee

Evelyn Yates Carpenter

Evelyn Yates Carpenter. ary service in 1957. He is a retired professor from Western Kentucky University and was Principal of the Campus School there for 11 years. (SAR member) Evelyn is a member of PAR. a Kentucky Colonel, active in the ...
You Were Born to Triumph: Create a Five-Star Life in Your ...

You Were Born to Triumph: Create a Five-Star Life in Your ...

Evelyn Roberts Brooks

Create a Five-Star Life in Your Quantum Kitchen Evelyn Roberts Brooks ... toward envisioning the beautiful world I see, and I move towards my vision. Interacting with Negative Friends Fear is a dream killer. The 128 Evelyn Roberts Brooks.
Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the ...

Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the ...

Bruce M. Stave

Jorgensen to John J. Budds, December 18, 1961, box 31, file 40, DRC; Waugh to Walter Wardwell, May 19, 1954, POJ, box 7, file 13, DRC; AAUP Newsletter, 2, no . i (October 1961), box 31, file 21, DRC. 78. Waugh to Dorothy Goodwin, ...
The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn ...

The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn ...

Evelyn Underhill

Substantial correspondence from an exceptional writer, poet, pacifist, and mystic
Last Dance with Valentino

Last Dance with Valentino

Daisy Waugh

If you like The Artist you’ll love Daisy Waugh’s Last Dance with Valentino.
Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist

Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist

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Recovering a Lost Modernist Dorothy McInnis Scura, Paul C. Jones. Becoming ( M)Other: The Anxiety of Maternity in Evelyn 5cott'5 Escapade Paul Christian Jones arly reviews of Escapade, Evelyn Scott's expressionistic account of her ...
BFF's 2: Best Frenemies Forever Series

BFF's 2: Best Frenemies Forever Series

Brenda Hampton

Kayla thought that her best friends, Evelyn and Trina, were supposed to always have her back, but when she discovers that Evelyn has been creeping with her husband, Cedric, and Trina has known about the ongoing affair for quite some time, ...

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