Evelyn Waugh: A Little Learning, Kartoniert / Broschiert
A Little Learning
- The First Volume of an Autobiography
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Verlag:
- Penguin Books Ltd, 01/1990
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780140183092
- Artikelnummer:
- 2265362
- Umfang:
- 352 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2010
- Gewicht:
- 185 g
- Maße:
- 201 x 131 mm
- Stärke:
- 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 25.1.1990
- Serie:
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
Autobiographical writings of Waugh's youth and early adulthood
Klappentext
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, his childhood was warm, bright and serene. The Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed were sometimes agreeable, but often not. His life at Oxford - which he evokes in Brideshead Revisited - was essentially a catalogue of friendship. His cool recollection of those hedonistic days is a portrait of the generation of Harold Acton, Cyril Connolly and Anthony Powell. That exclusive world he recalls with elegant wit and precision. He closes with his experiences as a master at a preparatory school in North Wales which inspired Decline and Fall.
Biografie
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) war nach dem Studium (Geschichte und Kunst in Oxford und London) als Lehrer und Journalist tätig und unternahm ausgedehnte Reisen in Europa, im Nahen Osten und in Amerika. 1930 konvertierte er zum Katholizismus.Mehr von Evelyn Waugh
