evelyn waugh

Shall we read and discuss these books? Put Out More Flags is considered to be the very funny, very melancholy novel of the Phony War and to be an overture to Sword of Honour, a trilogy of three novels: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender). The trilogy is sometimes...

Herewith a place to discuss this complex author and his works, but please not the movies and television adaptations. There are subfora for movies and TV. His A Handful of Dust seems to me an ironic masterpiece of control: funny, poignant, severe, audacious, alive. I also particularly like...