Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, and 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 travelled extensively and published a number of travel books. In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards. He went on to write a number of other books, including Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Men at Arms (1952). Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.
“A vicious, witty novel.” —New York Times
“Waugh’s technique is relentless and razor-edged…By any standard it
is super satire.” —Chicago Daily News
“The most mature and the best written novel that Mr. Waugh has yet
produced.” —New Statesman & Nation
“A story both tragic and hilariously funny, that seems to move
along without aid from its author…Unquestionably the best book Mr.
Waugh has written.” —Saturday Review
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