My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles by Waugh, Alec

My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781448201181)

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My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles by Waugh, Alec

My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles

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My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles by Waugh, Alec

My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles

$17.99
Format: Paperback
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Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has brought him a host of friends around the world. He is a warm person who knows a good friend when he sees one and is revered by all those with whom there has been mutual acceptance.

This book contains his memories of many famous writers and some figures no longer so well remembered in the period between the wars.

The section which will, no doubt, command the most attention is that devoted to the youth of his younger brother Evelyn. This throws invaluable light on the early years of a great but difficult man and reveals an insight which only one so close as a brother could have.

Author: Alec Waugh
ISBN-10: 1448201187
ISBN-13: 9781448201181
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2012
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d
By Alec Waugh
By Alec Waugh
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Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was a British novelist born in London and educated at Sherborne Public School, Dorset. Waugh's first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), is a semi-autobiographical account of public school life that caused some controversy at the time and led to his expulsion. Waugh was the only boy ever to be expelled from The Old Shirburnian Society.

Despite setting this record, Waugh went on to become the successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many exotic places throughout his life which later became the settings for some of his texts. He was also a noted wine connoisseur and campaigned to make the 'cocktail party' a regular feature of 1920s social life.

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