Mad world, Evelyn Waugh and the secrets of Brideshead, Paula Byrne
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Mad world, Evelyn Waugh and the secrets of Brideshead, Paula Byrne
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrationsplates
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Mad world
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bibliography
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339524520
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Paula Byrne
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Evelyn Waugh and the secrets of Brideshead
Summary
Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war, the novel was, he admitted, of no 'immediate propaganda value'. Instead, it was the story of a household, a family and a journey of religious faith--an elegy for a vanishing world and a testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. This brilliantly original biography unlocks for the first time the extent to which Waugh's great novel encoded and transformed his own experiences. In so doing, it illuminates the loves and obsessions that shaped his life, and brings us inevitably to a secret that dared not speak its name
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