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...Like a Gallic Evelyn Waugh, he does cast a sympathetic eye on Labrouste’s aristocratic chum Aymeric — last of the Harcourts of Normandy, shivering alone in his castle, one more “defeated old male” at the...
...Boyd is a harsh judge of craft: one of his essays dissects how Evelyn Waugh “botched” A Handful of Dust. Who does he rate as novelistic craftsmen?...
...The glutinous sentimentality of his blog (“I stood at the edge of this puddle in the fading light of the year and of my own years”) hilariously rivals the rustic effusions of William Boot in Evelyn Waugh...
...One of its architectural jewels is Canonbury Square, where writers George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh once lived....
...On the day of the massacre, March 3 1959, the governor of Kenya, Evelyn Baring, sent a secret telegram to Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, informing him of the deaths....
...Hemingway and Chekhov are clear favourites while Evelyn Waugh’s trenchant snobbery and self-loathing earns him seven outings in this mammoth collection....
...Only Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse could be considered his rivals for that title....
...Evelyn Boyd and her husband John are a case in point. They were on a three-day holiday in Búzios in 2004 when they happened to see a house they liked in the centre of town....
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