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@темы: фотографии, дети, margaret, links, laura

Two well-known Waugh scholars have collaborated on a detailed study of Waugh’s War Trilogy. Their long-awaited work, In the Picture: The Facts Behind the Fiction in Evelyn Waugh’s “Sword of Honor,” was recently published by Editions Rodopi B.V. (Amsterdam and New … Continue reading



@темы: World War II, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Sword of Honour, Academia, Carlos Villar Flor, Donat Gallagher, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle, Miscellaneous

Waugh’s Sword of Honour Trilogy was listed by the Daily Telegraph earlier this year among “Best War and History Books of All Time.” The list consisted of 35 books, including both fiction and history in English and translation. Here is the … Continue reading



@темы: World War II, Sword of Honour, Daily Telegraph, Best War and History Books of All Time, Books to Read, Miscellaneous

Ephraim Hardcastle, a gossip columnist for the Daily Mail, has identified Evelyn Waugh as a possible model for the villain in his daughter-in-law’s new thriller. Hardcastle writes in the paper’s 25 November edition about the latest novel (A Long Hot Unholy … Continue reading



@темы: Daily Mail, Auberon Waugh, Ephraim Hardcastle, Lady Teresa Waugh, Miscellaneous

BBC has started a series of three programs on Tatler magazine: Posh People: Inside Tatler. In the first episode (Monday, 24 November) Matthew Bell, newly appointed Commissioning Editor, is among those interviewed. He was formerly the society diarist for the Independent … Continue reading



@темы: Documentaries, Oxford, Decline and Fall, Matthew Bell, Television Programs, BBC 2, Bullingdon Club, Hertford College, Tatler Magazine, Miscellaneous

Robert McCrum, novelist and literary journalist, has for several months been writing a weekly Guardian column naming and discussing what he considers the 100 best novels in English. He is working through the history of English novel year by year … Continue reading



@темы: Scoop, A Handful of Dust, Robert McCrum, Guardian, Miscellaneous

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Events, Lectures, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Academia, American University of Rome

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Events, Lectures, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Academia, American University of Rome

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Events, Lectures, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Academia, American University of Rome

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Events, Lectures, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Academia, American University of Rome

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Events, Lectures, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Academia, American University of Rome

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Events, Lectures, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Academia, American University of Rome

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Events, Lectures, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Academia, American University of Rome

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Events, Lectures, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Academia, American University of Rome

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Events, Lectures, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Academia, American University of Rome

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading



@темы: Hollywood, Events, Lectures, The Loved One, Lisa Colletta, Academia, American University of Rome

Mark Amory, who edited the pioneering volume of Evelyn Waugh’s letters that appeared in 1980, has recently announced his retirement as Literary Editor of The Spectator. He went to work there a few years later in “about 1985.” In his … Continue reading



@темы: Letters, London, Jeremy Clarke, Mark Amory, The Spectator magazine, Miscellaneous

From the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s news pages: It’s been just over a year since work began on the first ever Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Together with Oxford University Press and the Waugh family, the project has been … Continue reading



@темы: Events, Vile Bodies, Complete Works, University of Leicester, Barbara Cooke, Martin Stannard, Literary Leicester, Rebecca Moore, Festivals, Research

Three previously unknown letters from Evelyn Waugh to his friend Eleanor Watts, the girlfriend of the man who ran off with the novelist’s wife in 1929, are to be sold at Bonhams Fine Books, Atlases, Manuscripts and Photographs Sale on … Continue reading



@темы: Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Auctions, Vile Bodies, Eleanor Watts

This week’s New York Times Book Review contains a review by writer David Leavitt of a novel by British satirist Edward St. Aubyn that was originally published in England in 1998. The novel, entitled On the Edge, is compared to … Continue reading



@темы: On the Edge, Sightings, The Loved One, Forest Lawn Cemetery, David Leavitt, Edward St. Aubyn, Esalen Institute, New York Times Book Review, Stars and Bars, William Boyd, Miscellaneous