Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

A terrifically engaging and original biography of one of England's greatest novelists, Evelyn Waugh, 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. Fans of The Mitfords, D.J. Taylor's Bright Young People, and Alexander Waugh's Fathers and Sons, as well as Anglophiles in general, will find much to savor in Paula Byrne's wonderful Mad World.

Author: Paula Byrne
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.27w x 1.06d
ISBN13: 9780060881313
ISBN10: 0060881313
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures

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