Evelyn Waugh: A Little Learning | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780140183092 | A Little Learning | The First Volume of an Autobiography | Waugh

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'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, his childhood was warm, bright and serene. The Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed were sometimes agreeable, but often not. His life at Oxford - which he evokes in Brideshead Revisited - was essentially a catalogue of friendship. His cool recollection of those hedonistic days is a portrait of the generation of Harold Acton, Cyril Connolly and Anthony Powell. That exclusive world he recalls with elegant wit and precision. He closes with his experiences as a master at a preparatory school in North Wales which inspired Decline and Fall.

Über den Autor

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

Erscheinungsjahr:	1990
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Penguin Modern Classics
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780140183092
ISBN-10:	0140183094
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Waugh, Evelyn
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Modern Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	201 x 131 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Evelyn Waugh
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.01.1990
Gewicht:	0,185 kg