Does anyone know if there is a transcript of William F. Buckley, Jr's introductions for the Great Performances PBS transmission of Brideshead Revisited and if...
Hello, I am a long standing fan of Waugh from Sweden, and was delighted when I found this list. My current interest however, is in the Plunket Greene family,...
... According to Mark Amory's note (Letters, p. 23), she lived out her life with her mother in a cottage on the Longleat estate. She was a Roman Catholic but...
Many thanks for your prompt and informative reply! I am ashamed I missed to check that reference, actually I can't even find my copy of Amory's book right...
In the Telegraph, A.N. Wilson writes of his impressions (mostly positive) on recently reading BR. He criticzes EW for incorrectly giving Celia Mulcaster a...
Hi Guys.. I am new to the group.. Just want to say hi and ask for some advice.. Iam reading The Vile Bodies, its for my English major its a good book , but I...
... the ... Not my favorite book by Waugh, though VB has its moments. Waugh himself said it seemed to shrivel up and rot internally. His wife had been deathly...
Oops! Pressed the wrong key. As I was saying: I love the crazy language of Agatha, Nina and Adam. Colonel Blount is an absolute scream and ranks as one of...
Vile Bodies is one of my favourite Waugh novels. The typically shallow, dim and rapacious characters with their peculiar parlance make it a very funny read, in...
Subject: [Evelyn_Waugh] Re: Vile Bodies..help me understand it.. Carrying on from what John has said, I think Waugh based many if not most of the characters as...
Vile Bodies is one of my favourite Waugh novels. The typically shallow, dim and rapacious characters with their peculiar parlance make it a very funny read, in...
It's been decades since I read "Vile Bodies," and I'm afraid didn't even finish it. About two-thirds of the way through, I glanced ahead a few pages and then a...
"For Andrew 'The Jackal' Wylie, it is the scoop of a lifetime and he never even had to bare his fangs. The predatory literary agent who aggressively bagged...
Here's a story from the Independent which provides an update on the remake of BR (it also repeats much of what was in a post from last week re the newly...
Dear Evreyone!!! Thank You so much for all the replies to my post, it really helped me to understand the concept of the book..I have something to go on now, to...
Hi guys I am still really stuck with Vile Bodies, my english major is not going well at all my essay on Vile Bodies is due in week and half Iam stuck I have to...
Hi guys I am still really stuck with Vile Bodies, my english major is not going well at all my essay on Vile Bodies is due in week and half Iam stuck I have to...
I thought the same thing and actually deleted her emails. I believe she is saying she like The Cure and The Cult, or she misses them. Cheers, Mike ... From:...
Hi Thanks for the reply, I appreciate criticism as I tend to grow from it, I don't take it personally but rather delighted when people seem to assume, the fore...
I am an American, and just learning about British novels and novelists , the humorists are my favorites...Malcolm Bradbury, Simon Raven, Monica Dickens, PG ...
Don't worry about Brideshead. I had the same experience and was only able to finish it after seeing the TV production. I still can't read it even though I've...
I had a different experience with Brideshead than Jeff did. It was my first Waugh, and I was determined to read it cover to cover...mostly because I picked it...
The Telegraph has put together a list of the 110 books which they consider should be included in the Perfect Library. In the Literary Fiction category they...
Here's a link to the entire article showing other selected titles: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml? xml=/arts/2008/04/06/nosplit/sv_classics06.xml ...
I have heard good things about Tom Sharpe as well as Anthony Powell. I just finished "Stepping Westward" by Malcolm Bradbury, and thought it was a wonderful...
"No one in their right mind would want to live with Greene, Amis, Waugh or Naipaul - but only a weak mind could cull their craft from the bookshelves." See...
It's true...I read that Evelyn Waugh once took rationed banannas for the entire family and ate them greedily in front of his children...but he does write well!...
Auberon Waugh tells this story in his memoir WILL THIS DO?, p. 67. In the index, under "Evelyn Waugh," one of the subheadings is "Greed," and this tale falls...
Gilbert Pinfold is probably Waugh's autobiographical work and deals with a bout of madness brought on by a a bad mixture of drugs and alcohol. Despite the...
That is one of my favorites of EW and I caught myself laughing outloud several times, much as I did while reading Scoop. Mike ... From: Jeffrey Manley To:...
