hecticium (Free subscription) | yesterday
I saw this in the Times on Saturday - absolutely priceless...of course it was supposed to be advertising Boot of The Beast in his tale in Ishmaelia.... the wonderful Scoop by Evelyn Waugh!
Quelle Erqsome (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... that counts.) 25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (I feel like I have but I'm not entirely sure.) 27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (As above and, if I have, not all of it.) 28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31. Anna Karenina...
My Tragic Right Hip (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Sometimes, just sometimes, I fall so hard for a book that I would even consider myself a bit strange. It happened with Theft . It happened with Hunger . And now it's happened again with Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited . I love this book so much that I want to sleep with it under my pillow for weeks. I love this book so much that I wish it was alive so that I could kiss...
Slog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
"It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste." — Evelyn Waugh If you've ever opened an issue of Watchtower —that magazine handed out by Jehovah's Witnesses—you've seen the illustrated post-rapture scenes of bounty . A typical one includes people returning from the orchards with baskets of apples, a child...
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
| November 25, 2008TT: From their mouthsA few months ago I wrote a "Sightings" for The Wall Street Journal called "Hearing Is Believing" in which I took note of the release by the British Library of a series of CDs devoted to talks by and interviews with W.H. Auden, Graham Greene, George Bernard Shaw, Evelyn Waugh, and H.G. Wells that were originally broadcast over the BBC. Now comes...
