Evelyn Waugh : a literary life / David Wykes.

"Waugh's life and his literary life exist in dynamic relationship. Virtually all of his fiction was autobiographical, yet he maintained that his novels were objects, unrelated to the life of their author." "This study traces the shifting relationship of ascertainable fact and ima...

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Main Author: Wykes, David, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] : New York : Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Series:Literary lives (New York, N.Y.)
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505 0 |a Second son : 1903-24 -- Pain as is seldom seen in men : 1924-30 -- Something of the crusader's zeal : 1930-39 -- A legitimate contribution to the war effort : 1939-51 -- Small acts to redeem the times : 1951-66. 
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