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Monsignor Ronald Knox

Waugh, Evelyn
Monsignor Ronald Knox
Excerpt from Monsignor Ronald Knox: Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and Protonotary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII, Compiled From the Original Sources How do I come to be writing it? The reader may ask. In 1950 Ronald asked if he might appoint me in his will as his sole literary executor. There was not much more than fifteen years between us, the clergy are notoriously longer lived than the laity, I did not think it likely my servi...

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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Waugh, Evelyn
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief(1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop(1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which info...

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Waugh in Abyssinia

Waugh, Evelyn
Waugh in Abyssinia
This reissue of a largely forgotten book by Evelyn Waugh will be the first in our new series edited by John Maxwell Hamilton, From Our Own Correspondent. Waugh's hilarious novel, Scoop, is said to be the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a Bible. Along with generations of general readers, the correspondents swear by and laugh at the antics of reporters in Waugh's fictional Ishmaelia. Few readers, however, are as acquainted with this...

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Brideshead Revisited

Waugh, Evelyn
Brideshead Revisited
This portrait of the interweaving relationships and fortunes of a desperately charming, if eccentric, aristocratic family and their influences upon Charles Ryder has been faithfully adapted for the stage, preserving all the'sharp wit and candid social commentary of Waugh's narrative.|Large flexible cast

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Elena. La madre dell'imperatore

Waugh, Evelyn / Parmeggiani, L. / Poggi, V.
Elena. La madre dell'imperatore
Concubina o forse moglie dell'imperatore Costanzo Cloro, Elena è la madre di Costantino il Grande. Soprannominata "Imperatrice di tutti i cristiani" e proclamata santa dalla Chiesa di Roma, la sua è una vita straordinaria, tanto che le note più suggestive della sua biografia spesso oltrepassano il dato storico per dar spazio alla leggenda. Ce chi la vuole madrina del ritrovamento della croce di Gesù, chi figlia della terra di Britannia e prota...

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