Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead - Hardcover
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Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. The chronicle of a household, a family, and a journey of religious faith—an elegy for a vanishing world—Waugh's masterwork was a tribute and testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. The Lygons of Madresfield were every bit as glamorous, eccentric, and fascinating as their fictional Brideshead counterparts, their story just as compelling, filled with secrets and betrayals, scandals and unwavering love.
Mad World is Paula Byrne's innovative and engrossing biography of Evelyn Waugh, recalling the loves and obsessions that shaped his world and his writing, capturing Waugh through the friendships that mattered most to him, and exploring how he encoded the defining experiences of his adult life in his greatest literary work.
Paula Byrne is the author of Perdita, a highly acclaimed biography of eighteenth-century celebrity Mary Robinson. A regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and other publications, she lives in Warwickshire, England, with her three children and her husband, the critic and biographer Jonathan Bate.
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- PublisherHarperPress
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0007243766
- ISBN 13 9780007243761
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. London. HarperPress/Harper Collins Publishers. 2009. First Edition/First Printing (1 printed under first published 2009 to copyright page). Hard Cover. Medium 8vo. 6.5 x 9.3 . ([16.5cm x 23.5cm] approx. 355 pp. Dark violet boards with pale blue metallic cursive titles to the spine. Book is new with no wear. Dust jacket unclipped at £25 shows Evelyn Waugh on the front wrap riding a motorcycle. Despite being new, the dust jacket has sustained a tiny amount of rubbing at the head of the spine which is barely visible. No other wear. A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited . Paula Byrne takes an innovative approach to her subject, setting out to capture Waugh through the friendships and loves that mattered most to him. She uncovers a man who, far from the snobbish misanthropist of popular caricature, was as loving and complex as the family that inspired him. This brilliantly original biography unlocks for the first time the extent to which Waugh s great novel encoded and transformed his own experiences. In so doing, it illuminates the loves and obsessions that shaped his life. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival quality sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Seller Inventory # 16MAY2023021
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