Waugh said several times that Brian Howard was one of the models for his "aesthetic buggers." The other, of course, was Harold Acton. But Howard seems to have...
Hi! Someone told me not to read Put Out More Flags because it was too topical to really be accessible to a contemporary audience. Is this true? Thanks!...
It is topical, but so is War and Peace. Has very good parts--and a sympathetic if sardonic view of a homosexual artist. And some really funny stuff. RMD ...
I LOVE Brideshead Revisited,have read it twice now despite only discovering it this month,I own two copies and have missed only the first episode of the series...
The autobiography, which only takes Waugh until his early 20s, is "A Little Learning," is enjoyable. As a school-person, you would probably enjoy "Decline and...
Can we assume that the TV series referred to below is a re-showing of the one first shown in the early 1980s? They haven't made another, have they? Also, if...
... From: William Wleklinski Also, if anyone knows, why did the paperback copies of Brideshead sold in the US after EW's revisions (1959?) fail to incorporate...
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Concerning the American paperback editions of Brideshead, RMD wrote: "Little, Brown is too cheap to issue the revisions." Perhaps the same answer would serve...
... of the one first shown in the early 1980s? They haven't made another, have they? ... Sebastian. ... software ... publishing a book ... of Service....
(I am not at all sure my messages are getting through via regular e- mail so I'm posting here.) The TV miniseries of Brideshead was extremely well done. My...
British TV is recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Brideshead Revisited TV series. BBC4 devoted an episode of a program called Cast and Crew to Brideshead...
BBC Radio 4's current Book of the Week is William Boyd's _Bamboo_ (2005), read by Anton Lesser. Today's instalment included an essay of Boyd's on the trials...
". . .Today's instalment included an essay of Boyd's on the trials and tribulations of adapting _Scoop_ for the screen. In particular he bemoans the...
I have made an attempt to answer these but would not feel brave enough to voice my opinions to the newsletter itself,I thought I would be safer to do so here. ...
Shane, you are hardly seeing it through "stupid eyes," as you put it. You have seen far more in it than I would have, unless I had been, for example, stuck on...
Thank you, I am bad at spelling but dont know how to spell check on yahoo.I only know how to do it in word.Im glad I didnt look stupid with what I was saying....
If you're using Outlook Express for e-mail, hit Control-A (to highlight the whole message), then F7 -- that runs the spellchecker. --Dave ... From: "Shane...
I got a book for Christmas called 'ONE HUNDRED GREAT BOOKS IN HAIKU'by David Bader.It's quite funny Brideshead Revisited is on page 30 and reads; 'Gay Catholic...
If you're using Outlook Express, highlight the whole e-mail, or just the part you want checked, and hit the F7 key. If you're using something else, go into the...
... ......................................... That makes it even worse! Just kidding. Most of us over 40 or 50 are convinced that "kids these days" are...
Anne Fadiman has edited a book entitled Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 14 September 2005....
... From: "John H. Wilson" <jwilson3@...> To: <Evelyn_Waugh@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:36 AM Subject: [Evelyn_Waugh] Brideshead...
... own ... Our Rules of Engagement are relevant to discussion of religion, and I'll try to abide by them. Also, I know nothing about Toynton. One needn't be...
... ................................................ Too true. I just read somewhere that we Yanks, with just 7 percent of the world's Catholics, account for...
I was most interested in the points you made about this intriguing matter, but for me, it begs two more questions. Firstly, how come Rex is sufficiently smart...
