A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh\"s classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the 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, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War....

\"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....

Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century\"s most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters over twenty-two years....

Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences....

Evelyn Waugh\"s first book: a portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth \"Biography, as books about the dead are capriciously catalogued, is still very much in the mode\" This is a sparkling account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti\"s tragic and mysterious life, telling the story beh...

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, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War....

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the biography of Ronald Knox - priest, classicist, prolific writer and one of the outstanding men of letters of his time. The renowned Oxford chaplain was a friend of figures such as G. K....

In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh\"s early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels....

Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour....

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for The Times....

A witty account of Waugh\"s time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict....

Fictionalising his experience of service during the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh\"s Sword of Honour is the complete one-volume edition of his masterful trilogy, edited with an introduction by Angus Calder in Penguin Modern Classics....

This disquieting, sharply comic novel recounts a period of mental breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established novelist of mature years An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate....

Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to \"come inside\" the Catholic Church or expressing his contempt for modish Marxism and American-style religion, Evelyn Waugh\"s journalism is sparkling, sometimes vitriolic and always full of good sense....

The Empress Helena made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross, and built churches at Bethlehem and Olivet. Her life coincided with one of the great turning-points of history: the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire....