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“…Evelyn Waugh; portrait of a country neighbor…”

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Table of Contents: “…The Catholic novelist II: Evelyn Waugh --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Christopher Sykes on Nancy Astor and Evelyn Waugh --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Revisiting Brideshead (Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh) /…”

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Table of Contents: “…The rule of outrage: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies; 4. Laughter and fear in A Handful of Dust; 5. …”

Table of Contents: “…George Orwell 17 2. Evelyn Waugh 37 3. Graham Greene 61 4. Rebecca West 80 5. …”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- Graham Greene: Victory in failure. -- Evelyn Waugh: Christian gentleman. -- Gertrud von Le Fort: The song at the scaffold. -- Bibliography (p. 239-246)…”

Table of Contents: “…The rule of outrage: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies; 4. Laughter and fear in A Handful of Dust; 5. …”
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Table of Contents: “…DeVitis -- Quelling the riot; Evelyn Waugh's progress / H. Howarth -- To look outside; the fiction of J.F. …”

Table of Contents: “…Eliot, part I and II -- Lord Olivier -- Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889 -- Two hundred years of the Bounty -- Our eternal Holmes -- The cold eye of Yeats -- Father of the OED -- Chaplin on stage -- Evelyn Waugh : a revaluation -- James Joyce : fifty years after -- Tolkien : a centenary -- Virginia Woolf mortua 1941 -- Marilyn.…”

Table of Contents: “…Everest and the British national spirit. -- Evelyn Waugh and the art of entertainment. -- Three obsessed critics. -- An ideal reviewer. -- The limits of literary history. -- Madness, literature, and society. -- Awakening from the nightmare? …”

Table of Contents: “…Adam Bede / by George Eliot -- Arrowsmith / by Sinclair Lewis -- The castle / by Franz Kafka -- Davita's harp / by Chaim Potok -- East of Eden -- The great train robbery / by Michael Crichton -- A handful of dust / by Evelyn Waugh -- Journey to the center of the earth / by Jules Verne -- The magnificent Ambersons / by Booth Tarkington -- The natural -- Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel / by Avi -- Patternmaster / by Octavia E. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: English masculinities in transition -- Manly independent men: (de)constructing the English gentleman -- Out of place: Evelyn Waugh and the retreating gentleman -- An orphaned manliness: George Orwell and the Bovex man -- "One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys": posting the gentleman in Philip Larkin's poetry -- "Moulded and shaped": John Wain, Ian Fleming, and threshold masculinities -- Writing women, reading men: A. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Leavis -- Robert Graves -- George Orwell -- Evelyn Waugh -- Christopher Isherwood -- C.P. Snow -- Anthony Powell -- John Betjeman -- W.H. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Snow -- Graham Greene's demonical heroes -- The world of Elizabeth Bowen -- Joyce Cary: the moralist as novelist -- George Orwell: the white man's burden -- The world of Evelyn Waugh: the normally insane -- Normality defined: the novels of Henry Green -- The intimate world of Ivy Compton-Burnett -- The angries: is there a protestant in the house? …”

Table of Contents: “…/ William Faulkner -- All the king's men / Robert Penn Warren -- Brideshead revisited / Evelyn Waugh -- The death of the heart / Elizabeth Bowen -- The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan -- The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers -- Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe -- Nectar in a sieve / Kamala Markandaya -- The optimist's daughter / Eudora Welty -- The remains of the day -- Kazuo Ishiguro -- Snow falling on cedars / David Guterson -- Surfacing / Margaret Atwood -- The sweet hereafter / Russell Banks -- Vanity Fair / William Thackeray -- The wonderful wizard of Oz / L. …”
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Table of Contents: “…An American tragedy / Theodore Dreiser -- The big sleep / Raymond Chandler -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- The lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie -- The mambo kings play songs of love / Oscar Hijuelos -- The mill on the floss / George Eliot -- The red pony / John Steinbeck -- Schindler's list / Thomas Keneally -- Scoop / Evelyn Waugh -- Smilla's sense of snow / Peter Hoeg -- Soul catcher / Frank Herbert -- The time machine / H.G. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Lawrence's The rainbow and Women in love -- Aristocracies of mourning: re-consecrating aestheticism in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited -- Sublime ironies: Samuel Becket and the remainders of romanticism -- Inoperative ironies: Jamesian aestheticism and post-modern culture in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty -- The aesthetic afterlives of Mr W.P.: reanimating Pater in twenty first century fiction.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Some writers and books -- Crime -- Simenon -- Highsmith -- Various novelists -- Evelyn Waugh -- Hortense Calisher -- Elizabeth Taylor -- Kathrin Perutz -- I. …”

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- Wyndham Lewis -- Jean Cocteau -- Henry Miller -- Djuna Barnes -- Pearl Buck -- e.e. cummings -- James Thurber -- André Breton -- John Dos Passos -- William Faulkner -- Hart Crane -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Federico García Lorca -- James Agee -- Evelyn Waugh -- T.H. White -- James Michener -- Hermann Hesse -- Lawrence Durrell -- Dylan Thomas -- Tennessee Williams -- Allen Ginsberg -- Günter Grass -- Anne Sexton -- John Updike -- Colleen McCullough -- Fernando Del Paso.…”

Table of Contents: “…Eliot, late empire, and decadence / Vincent Sherry -- Romancing the stump: modernism and colonialism in Forester's A passage to India / Brian May -- "A tangle of modernism and barbarity": Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief / Rita Barnard -- Joyce's Trojan horse: Ulysses and the Aesthetics of decolonization / Richard Begam -- Yeats, Spengler, and A vision after empire / Nicholas Allen -- Elizabeth Bowen's troubled modernism / Maria DiBattista -- "Upon the thistle they're impaled": Hugh MacDiarmid's modernist nationalism / Ian Duncan -- Postcolonial modernism? …”

Table of Contents: “…Gontarski and Chris Ackerley -- George Orwell's Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four / Erika Gottlieb -- Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited and other late novels / Bernard Schweizer -- Modernism's swansong : Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano / Patrick A. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Gontarski and Chris Ackerley -- George Orwell's Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four / Erika Gottlieb -- Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited and other late novels / Bernard Schweizer -- Modernism's swansong : Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano / Patrick A. …”

Table of Contents: “…Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie -- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent -- P.G. Wodehouse: The Honorable Schoolboy -- Anthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity -- John Buchan: Spy Thriller's Father -- Graham Greene: I'll be damned -- Death from a salesman: Graham Greene's bottle ontology -- Loving Philip Larkin -- Stephen Spender: a nice bloody fool -- Edward Upward: the captive mind -- C.L.R. …”

Table of Contents: “…Margaret Mitchell ; Lewis Grassic Gibbon ; Georgette Heyer ; John Steinbeck ; Postscript : John Hersey, John O'Hara ; George Orwell ; Evelyn Waugh ; Postscript : Alec Waugh ; Nathanael West ; Margery Allingham ; Graham Greene ; Patrick Hamilton ; Christopher Isherwood ; Henry Green ; Arthur Koestler ; Anthony Powell ; Ayn Rand ; C.P. …”

Table of Contents: “…Propaganda: Christopher Isherwood, Edward Upward, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Edmund White, Henry Green, Evelyn Waugh, William Boyd, Graham Greene, R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Rohinton Mistry, V. …”