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5 days ago · It was perhaps the last question ever put to Evelyn Waugh. Whose death, when it came — on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966, soon after returning home from morning Mass, celebrated by his great friend, Jesuit Father Philip Caraman, in the liturgical language he loved best, i.e., Latin — could scarcely have been happier.
1 day ago · Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is an example of great art on the Right. The favorite of many Catholics, this novel depicts the conversion of a young English artist named Charles Ryder from the banality of secular culture to the truth of the Catholic faith. Waugh weaves together the threads of Ryder’s professional life as an artist, his ...
5 days ago · Kendall Feaver’s excellent new play, set at a present-day Oxbridge college, begins with a scene that recalls Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall. Jo Mulligan, the first female master in the ...
1 day ago · Among the signers were W.H. Auden, Evelyn Waugh, Jacques Maritain, French Nobel Prize-winning novelist Francois Mauriac, composer Benjamin Britten and Gertrud von Le Fort, the author of the ...
2 days ago · Lately I was reading Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and I was haunted by the scene where the young protagonist visits his wealthy father to complain that he is short of funds, and his father deliberately misinterprets this as a request for a different kind of help: “Well, I’m the worst person to come to for advice.
3 days ago · But this novel stands out to me because it is difficult to “pair” with other books. Usually I like to read books in conversation with other books. I cannot help but create a syllabus. Example: The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Babel by R.F Kuang, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi. The academy ...
1 day ago · Spencer-Churchill family. Eden family. Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon ( née Spencer-Churchill; 28 June 1920 – 15 November 2021) was an English memoirist and the second wife of Anthony Eden, who served as British prime minister from 1955 to 1957. She married Eden in 1952, becoming Lady Eden in 1954 when he was made a Knight of the ...
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