EVELYN WAUGH was born 115 years ago

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books, and he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–61). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh

115 éve született EVELYN WAUGH angol író. Sajátos írói műfaja a szatírikus komédia volt, és jelentős regénye a Jámbor pálya, A megboldogult, az Utolsó látogatás, valamint az  Edmund Campion  mártír költőről szóló életrajzi műve. Remek monográfiát írt Dante Gabriel Rossettiről. (KalPress)

 

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