Description
Summary: | 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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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 334 pages) : portrait |
Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-322) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780773560888 0773560882 1282850644 9781282850644 9786612850646 6612850647 |
Language: | English. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
Action Note: | digitized |