This study of the life and works of Evelyn Waugh traces the novelist's pursuit of his vocation and his long retreat from a world which he came to regard as a spiritual dungeon. Jeffrey Heath explores the paradoxical elements in Waugh's career: his quest for a refuge itself proved to be a prison and his devotion to the Augustan graces was accompanied by a lasting attraction to a Dionysiac age without restratint. The deep cleft in Waugh's nature imbued his art with the characteristic quirky complexity which has fascinated many readers, but it left him a choleric and melancholy man who never fully accepted his calling as a writer.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography: p. [279]-322
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 823/.912
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773504079 9780773560888
- LCCN
- PR6045A97
- LCCN Item number
- Z69 1982eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xviii, 334 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)jme00326184 (OCoLC)144142666 (CaOOCEL)400996
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 10
- PREFACE 12
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 18
- 1. Vocation 20
- 2. God and Taste 49
- 3. The Artist 56
- 4. The Man and the Critics 67
- 5. Decline and Fall 82
- 6. Vile Bodies 99
- 7. Black Mischief 110
- 8. A Handful of Dust 123
- 9. Scoop 143
- 10. Work Suspended 158
- 11. Put Our More Flags 171
- 12. Brideshead Revisited 180
- 13. Scott-King's Modern Europe 203
- 14. The Loved One 207
- 15. Helena 217
- 16. Love Among the Ruins 225
- 17. The War Trilogy: Introduction 229
- 18. Men at Arms 236
- 19. Officers and Gentlemen 247
- 20. Unconditional Surrender 263
- 21. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold 278
- 22. Epilogue 285
- TEXTUAL NOTE 294
- NOTES 298
- INDEX 342
- A 342
- B 342
- C 343
- D 344
- E 344
- F 344
- G 345
- H 345
- I 346
- J 346
- K 346
- L 346
- M 346
- N 347
- O 347
- P 347
- Q 347
- R 347
- S 348
- T 349
- U 349
- V 349
- W 349
- Y 353
- Z 353
