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  • Category: Authors
  • Founded: Aug 25, 2005
  • Language: English
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"Conversation, as I know it, is like juggling; up go the balls and the balloons and the plates, up and over, in and out, spinning and leaping, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them." Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited

Welcome, members and guests, to the Evelyn Waugh Discussion List.

The list is hosted by the Evelyn Waugh Society and Evelyn Waugh Studies (www.lhup.edu/jwilson3). The object of the Evelyn Waugh Society is to advance, for the public benefit, research and interest in the life and works of the English author Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966).

The Evelyn Waugh Discussion List is a moderated list whose aim is to provide both Waugh aficionados and scholars a place to discuss the life and works of one of literature's great authors.

Rules of Engagement may be found to the left under the "Files" hyperlink.

NPG x14411. Evelyn Waugh by Howard Coster. Date: 1930. Medium: half-plate film negative. Copyright: National Portrait Gallery, London (www.npg.org.uk)



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Re: Waugh on Kindle
To continue this old thread, I just noticed on amazon.co.uk, that EW’s books will be released on Kindle on 31 May. The wife and I bought our kids Kindle
Posted - Mon May 21, 2012 1:43 pm
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Sword of Honor picked by Stephen King
I picked up a Men’s Health at the library, flipped through it, and saw a side bar asking Stephen King to pick the best books that run 1000 pages. EW’s
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Re: Waugh in The New Republic
Waugh loved moral absolutes.  His heartbreak at their demise is visible in his Sword of Honour trilogy.  I wonder what he would think of the England of today
Posted - Thu May 3, 2012 7:50 pm
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Waugh in The New Republic
John Gray, reviewing Jonathan Haidt's recent *The Righteous Mind* in the latest TNR, briefly mentions Waugh: THIS IS A USEFUL reminder that the modern Western
Posted - Thu May 3, 2012 6:20 pm
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Waugh reference in "Damsels in Distress"
The new film by Whit Stillman, Damsels in Distress , contains a reference to Evelyn Waugh. There is one brief scene in a collegiate English class, where
Posted - Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:57 pm
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