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About Evelyn Waugh
English writer
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of the 20th century, best known for his novels, biographies, and travel books. He also worked widely as a journalist and book reviewer, and 75 quotes appear on the site under his name. He is especially associated with the satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952 to 1961). He is recognised as a major prose stylist in English literature.
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Books by Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
2000
Decline and Fall
2017
Scoop
1973
A Handful of Dust
2001
Vile Bodies
1996