Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh (October 28 1903 – April 10 1966) was an English satirical novelist, brother of Alec Waugh and father of Auberon Waugh. He is generally regarded as one the the greatest figures in English literature in the 20th century.

List of Works

Novels

• Decline and Fall (1928)
• Vile Bodies (1930)
• Black Mischief (1932)
• A Handful of Dust (1934)
• Scoop - the rush of war reporters to a thinly disguised Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) (1938)
• Put Out More Flags (1942)
• The Loved One (subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy)- about the excesses of a Californian funeral business, made into a film starring Liberace
• Brideshead Revisited (subtitled The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder) - details the decline of the British upper class (1945)
• Helena (1950)
• The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957)

Sword of Honour Trilogy

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• Men at Arms (1952)
• Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future (1953)
• Officers and Gentlemen (1955)
• Unconditional Surrender (1961)

Biography

• Saint Edmund Campion: Priest and Martyr
• The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox
• "Dante Gabriel Rosetti"

Autobiography

• A little learning (1964)