'A whole Gothic world had come to grief . . .'Beautiful Lady Brenda Last lives at Hetton Abbey, a crumbling Gothic monstrosity that is her husband Tony's pride and joy. Bored and restless after seven years of marriage, she drifts into an...

"Decline and Fall (2)" von Evelyn Waugh ist eine satirische Darstellung der britischen Gesellschaft in den 1920er Jahren. Der Protagonist, Paul Pennyfeather, ist ein junger Mann, der aus Oxford verbannt wird und sich in einer Reihe von...

Azania, eine fiktive Insel vor der Küste Afrikas. Seit kurzem herrscht dort Kaiser Seth, der in Oxford studiert hat. Zusammen mit dem Abenteurer Basil Seal versucht er, auf der Insel die moderne Zivilisation einzuführen - mit...

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and...

Brideshead Revisited von Waugh, Evelyn

This reissue of a largely forgotten book by Evelyn Waugh will be the first in our new series edited by John Maxwell Hamilton, From Our Own Correspondent. Waugh's hilarious novel, Scoop, is said to be the closest thing foreign...

Jan Weiler liest die verrückte Komödie über die Jagd nach dem großen KnüllerDer britische Klassiker des feinen HumorsDer kauzige William Boot schreibt seine wöchentliche Kolumne über Natur und Landleben für eine Londoner Zeitung und ist...

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern...

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by...

Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War.The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels,...