Evelyn Waugh: New Directions

In this volume of essays casting new light on aspects of Waugh’s life and writings, the essential Waugh emerges as a diffident artist and a sensitive recorder not only of the Roaring Twenties but also of his century. Evelyn Waugh’s undisputed talent and controversial personality are set off in a series of studies that provide new elements towards the understanding of the man and the the annulment of his first marriage, his relations with the BBC are for the first time dealt with in depth and objectivity.