Isn’t London hell?
Seamus Perry: Evelyn Waugh, 10 August 2023
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 480 pp., £16.99, October 2022,978 0 241 58531 3 Show More
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 480 pp., £16.99, October 2022,
Decline and Fall
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 320 pp., £14.99, October 2022,978 0 241 58529 0 Show More
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 320 pp., £14.99, October 2022,
A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 336 pp., £14.99, October 2022,978 0 241 58527 6 Show More
by Evelyn Waugh.
Penguin, 336 pp., £14.99, October 2022,
“... material of the book could just as well have formed the basis of a very different sort of work. John Betjeman picked up on this odd and wholly characteristic ambivalence when he wrote to congratulate him: ‘When I read the book it seemed to me so rockingly funny that nothing else would seem funny again.’Decline and Fall is one of a number of Waugh’s ... ”