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The Loved One (1948) Scott-King's Modern Europe, published in 1947, is a novella by Evelyn Waugh, sometimes called A Sojourn in Neutralia. It was first published in an abridged form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1947, [1] and then by Chapman & Hall, also in 1947. The first American edition, by Little, Brown, appeared in 1949.
- Evelyn Waugh
- United Kingdom
- 1947
- 1947
Apr 17, 2016 · August 27, 2019. Scott-King's Modern Europe is a short, perhaps over-short novella by Evelyn Waugh. Written in 1946, it visits a fictitious part of Europe largely unknown to its determinedly English protagonist. In 1946 Scott-King had been classical master at Grantchester for twenty-five years, we are told in the tale's first sentence.
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- Evelyn Waugh
Scott-King's Modern Europe tells the story of a typical ingrown British academic with an obscure hobbyhorse. In this case, the hobbyhorse is an obsession with a minor 17th century poet from the fictitious country of Neutralia whose only claim to "fame" is an epic poem written in Latin.
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- Evelyn Waugh
Apr 11, 2012 · Returning more nearly to the mood of his earlier works, this short novel, of a traditional English schoolmaster's exposure to the materialism and totalitarianism of a middle-European country, is a skillful satiric exercise and one which- in its intellectual subtlety- is well above The Loved One. Scott-King, for whom the epithet is dim, is attracted by a blood-brotherhood in dimness to the ...
- Kirkus Reviews
Scott-King is a schoolmaster’s schoolmaster: quiet, measured, honest, and thoughtful. He is convinced to disrupt his quiet, consistent life in England to visit the totalitarian country of Neutralia, to participate in a conference on a poet who he has studied extensively.
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