In a BBC documentary about Ford Madox Ford one of the talking head academics interviewed was Max Saunders who teaches at KCL and has written several...
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adanishcatholic
Oct 8, 2012 3:36 pm
I am the owner of a Penguin edition from 1982 of Briedshead Revisited (measuring 18 x 11 cm). I wonder if there is an even smaller edition which I could use on...
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Mark DeLucas
delucasm
Oct 8, 2012 3:46 pm
I don't think there's a true pocket edition. One's best bet might be to buy a frayed, used paperback that one wouldn't mind scrunching, bending, packing into...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Oct 8, 2012 4:13 pm
There were Modern Library editions of the earlier novels with soft cloth covers (I have one of Vile Bodies) which are great for traveling but I couldn't see...
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David Kaftal
dkaftal...
Oct 8, 2012 4:35 pm
If you bought an e-reader like a Kindle or Nook, you could load the complete works of Mr. Waugh on it, as well as anything else you'd care to read, and the...
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Core, Deborah
setzen1948
Oct 8, 2012 6:51 pm
The first time I ever read BRIDESHEAD, it was in a small pulp trade edition that I found in a rented summer home. It was tiny ("it" being the edition, but...
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Relee54
Oct 8, 2012 6:51 pm
Do what I did. Get the Jeremy Irons audiobook version of Brideshead revisited and load it on your iPod. Makes for great listening when you travel....
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Seth Holler
seth_holler
Oct 12, 2012 6:52 pm
Anyone know what precisely "his nibs" means in this sentence from the first chapter of BLACK MISCHIEF? I presume it's a reference to the emperor. ... -- Seth...
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John Woodman
johnwoodmanuk
Oct 13, 2012 12:51 pm
No idea of the derivation, but the meaning is "the boss, the top man". I suspect it is still understood fairly widely in UK. Best regards John Woodman...
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Robert Davis
robertmurray...
Oct 13, 2012 12:51 pm
Right. ... From: Seth Holler <scholler@...> Subject: [Evelyn_Waugh] Black Mischief query To: "Evelyn_Waugh@yahoogroups.com"...
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kelleher john
johnke7
Oct 13, 2012 12:51 pm
Yes, it's referring to the emperor. In British English it's a fairly common expression for, as the Shorter English Dictionary puts it, 'a self-important...
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Seth C. Holler
seth_holler
Oct 14, 2012 1:51 am
Thanks, all. Here's the OED entry: nibs, n. Pronunciation: Brit. /nɪbz/ , U.S. /nɪbz/ Forms: 18 knibbs, 18– nibs. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Oct 21, 2012 7:14 pm
In a recent issue of the Guardian, DJ Taylor listed is top 10 parodies (something at which he himself excels). Waugh is included for his parody of the Hail...
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jeffreymanley123
jeffreymanle...
Nov 29, 2012 10:12 pm
Here's an excerpt from the Spectator's review of a memoir of Graham Greene by a friend of his who met him in Haiti (Bernard Diederich): 'In an especially...
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Robert Davis
robertmurray...
Nov 30, 2012 2:15 am
GG didn't care for Knox, as EW realized in a letter to GG about the Knox biography. Don't know about Belloc, though I suspect that GG might have found him a...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Nov 30, 2012 11:48 pm
Thanks, Bob. I found a copy of Greene's review of the Knox bio in a Penguin edition of his collected essays. This was mentioned in the letter you cited. I...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Dec 2, 2012 12:05 am
There's also a review from 1941 of two biographies of GK Chesterton in Greene's collected essays. While he didn't much like the biographies, he clearly makes...
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Seth Holler
seth_holler
Dec 2, 2012 2:57 am
Re GKC, see also GG's essay on Oliver Twist. I think it's called "Young Dickens." -- Seth C. Holler, Ph.D. candidate...
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Robert Davis
robertmurray...
Dec 8, 2012 9:01 pm
For references to Waugh, see http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/search/?query=%22Evelyn+Waugh%22...
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Robert Davis
robertmurray...
Dec 9, 2012 5:35 pm
This is a very odd site which helps one find allusions to Waugh in other novels and also (though as Hemingway would have said, I have not yet dominated that...
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Robert Davis
robertmurray...
Dec 28, 2012 1:05 am
If anyone has a copy of the 1945 Chapman & Hall "Revised edition"--it's on the title page--and would be willing to verify a couple of readings that may or may...
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Antony F. P. Vickery
afpdv
Jan 23, 2013 6:22 am
See http://evelynwaughsociety.org/2013/new-evelyn-waugh-paperback-hardback-e-book-and-audiobook-editions-published-by-little-brown-hachette/ . Antony F. P....
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Michael and Sonja
myerstyson
Jan 25, 2013 3:35 am
Awesome! And so much cheaper than e-book versions on amazon.co.uk! Cheers, Mike   Read Mike's blog! http://mtheads.typepad.com/10kmarathonswim/  Mike...
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Robert Davis
robertmurray...
Feb 4, 2013 5:59 pm
Perhaps it will play in the US. ... Perhaps it will play in the US. News 1 new result for Evelyn Waugh Why the Jazz Age still has us in its sway...
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gwynpe7
Feb 21, 2013 4:39 pm
Hi! I've just listened to In Our Time, a programme chaired by Lord Bragg, about EW on BBC Radio 4. More details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qmbsc...
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Relee54
Feb 21, 2013 4:39 pm
An interesting article on the forgotten connection between Waugh's novel The Loved One and Billy Wilder's movie Sunset Boulevard: ...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Feb 22, 2013 4:53 pm
Here's the link to the BBC programme mentioned below. It can be played for the next year. It involves a panel discussion with Melvin Bragg, John Bowen...
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Jeffrey Manley
jeffreymanle...
Feb 26, 2013 3:39 pm
In this BBC program one of the male panelists pronounced Beste-Chetwynde as "Beast Cheating". He or the other male panelist later used both pronunciations as...
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Mick Dempsey
oracstar2000
Feb 26, 2013 8:35 pm
Hi Jeff, When I went to see a recent theatre production of D & F the cast pronounced it "Beast Cheating". I would have gone for "Best Chet-win". Mick. From:...
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Robert Davis
robertmurray...
Feb 26, 2013 8:36 pm
I've heard Beast Cheating, and even seen in print somewhere, but I know of no further authority for the pronunciation. ... I've heard Beast Cheating, and even...
