In the Independent on Sunday for June 18 an artlcle appears on the occasion of John Betjeman's centenary which occurs this year. This is probably one of many....
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dave matheny
davematheny3000
Jul 3, 2006 4:00 pm
". . . that wonderful gift he has for bringing out the startling and alarming and funny in the trivial will be spurred into renewed activity. . ." In many...
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John H. Wilson
johnhwilsonjr
Jul 12, 2006 2:33 am
... Compton Acres is a "real" place, or at least it has its own website: www.comptonacres.co.uk The place is in Poole, Dorset. The website shows pictures of...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Jul 12, 2006 2:06 pm
... John, Yes, I see that now. Thanks for the links. It seems that Betjeman was down there on a visit and saw it as a case of just the sort of over the top...
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John H. Wilson
johnhwilsonjr
Jul 13, 2006 4:02 pm
The Evelyn Waugh Conference has been scheduled for 21-23 June 2007 in Montpellier, France. The theme is "Waugh in His World." If you are interested in...
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therainbow.star
Jul 22, 2006 6:49 pm
Does anyone know where ONE can find a copy of Nancy Mitford's Wigs on the green? I know she didn't want it published again and so copies are rather rare, but...
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therainbow.star
Jul 22, 2006 6:49 pm
Does Basil Seal appear in any other stories/novels other than "Black Mischief", "Put Out more flags" "Basil Seal rides again" and "Work Suspended"?...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Aug 7, 2006 3:45 pm
Penguin Books has selected what it considers the 'best' 100 of its classics series on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first publication of a...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Aug 7, 2006 4:53 pm
In my previous post I misstated the nature of the selection. It was the Times staff, not Penguin who selected the top 100. The 20 categories appear on...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Aug 9, 2006 2:49 pm
In a review of the republication of John Betjeman's letters in the Guardian newspaper (or possibly the Observer, but on the Guardian's website) John Saumarez...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Aug 9, 2006 4:30 pm
... I've still got this wrong. The selection is by Penguin, as I first thought, not the Times. There seems to be a smaller selection by the Times, but the...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Aug 9, 2006 5:54 pm
... Reviewer is Charles Sumarez Smith, not John. Sorry....
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Sep 7, 2006 6:57 pm
There's a review in this week's Spectator about a recent history of Eton College. The reviewer leads off with some EW quotes on the subject of Eton. These...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Sep 9, 2006 4:03 pm
I found the reference to Eton by Waugh and it is indeed in Anthony Powell's Memoirs v. IV, The Strangers All Are Gone, p.40. As it turns out it involves a...
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BDR
finziholst
Sep 11, 2006 2:48 am
All- I am reading _Scoop_ again. It strikes me as very apt for the present times. A favorite bit: They were small orange documents, originally printed for the...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Sep 11, 2006 1:56 pm
... Doug, Are there any interesting extra features on the DVD of The Loved One? I recall at the time there was a book in the 'Making of...' mode by Terry ...
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dave matheny
davematheny3000
Sep 11, 2006 9:29 pm
BDR wrote: ". . . > Also the film of _The Loved One_ has been reissued on DVD. While it bears little resemblance to the book, in its own way (if you can...
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BDR
finziholst
Sep 11, 2006 9:58 pm
... Dear Jeff and all- Yes, there are some extras -- pretty niggardly as extras go. A sort of featurette entitled "Trying to Offend Everyone." The only...
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John H. Wilson
johnhwilsonjr
Sep 26, 2006 4:59 pm
I'm sorry to say that the Waugh Conference scheduled for June 2007 in Montpellier, France has had to be cancelled. Alain Blayac made a gallant effort, but he...
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jlawest
Oct 6, 2006 1:04 am
Hello All, Thank-you for the priviledge and pleasure of joining your group. I read most of Waugh's novels for the first time this past summer. I am now...
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dave matheny
davematheny3000
Oct 6, 2006 2:20 pm
I find myself perplexed by his judgement, apparently shared by other Waugh scholars, that the early comedies are superior literary works to the later...
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alumni_newsletter
alumni_newsl...
Oct 6, 2006 4:12 pm
Hello, With regards to this comment: "I find myself perplexed by his judgement, apparently shared by other Waugh scholars, that the early comedies are superior...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Oct 11, 2006 10:02 pm
Netflix has announced the availability of Sword of Honour in a DVD that will play on US equipment: Region 1 and NTSC. It's on two discs and will also be...
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jlawest
Oct 14, 2006 9:02 pm
Dear Marybeth, Thanks for your reply to my question. The explanation in terms of innovation makes a great deal of sense. It is probably what is at the root...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Oct 15, 2006 9:42 pm
... . ... Dear Jason, WRT the drastic ending of HoD, you are not alone in finding it incongruous. According to William Boyd who wrote an introduction to the...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Oct 16, 2006 4:32 pm
... According to William Boyd who wrote an introduction to ... Sorry, Boyd did not write the screenplay for Handful nor was it a TV adaption but rather a...
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Oohisay
alumni_newsl...
Oct 17, 2006 1:13 am
... I agree the ending is rather bleak, but I wonder just how incongruous it is for the novel, especially given the Gothic undertones (or maybe overtones) of...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Oct 17, 2006 3:02 pm
... I've never had a problem with the ending as published in the UK version and thought it worked in the movie version as well. But it's interesting that it...
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princessnaea
Oct 18, 2006 5:07 am
... wrote: That said, I've never read the alternative ending used ... that ... improvement over the ... The 2000 Australian penguin edition has the alternative...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Oct 20, 2006 1:44 am
In this week's Spectator, Alan Massie writes an article in defense of Somerset Maugham's reputation as a novelist. As his leading evidence he cites Evelyn...
