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A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Waugh, Evelyn

 
9780140183092: A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140183094 ISBN 13: 9780140183092
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

'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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140183094
ISBN 13 
9780140183092
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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