Author
1903-10-28–19661966-04-10
Also known as Ekvelyn Waugh
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Readers in conversation
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But I had no patience with this convent chatter. I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon; I had had my finger in the great, succulent pie of creation. I was a man of the Renaissance that evening- of Browning's renaissance. I, who had walked t…
It's David Bowie's Top 100 books
Very amusing episodic novel amongst the upper crust of the youth in 1920s England. Not as picaresque as Decline and Fall and not so serious as Brideshead, but is on the way to it. In each Waugh book I've read, his own perspective seems inscrutable to me. Most…
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Beautiful, funny, rich, tragic, and deeply, deeply spiritual. Perfect for any existential crisis. Profoundly Catholic. Wrestles with matters of faith, eternity, and the spirit in a way few novels (let alone other works of art) dare to do these days. The Secre…
