5/30/2023 0 Comments Evelyn waugh scoop review![]() ![]() This had given my father a personal interest in the author, but it was a very tenuous link between my world and that of Waugh’s early fiction. For most of his life he was a dance musician by profession, and at some time in the 1930s he used to play in a nightclub frequented by Evelyn Waugh and his friends, whose names figured prominently in the newspaper gossip columns of the day. I was, I think, fifteen when my father put into my hands a tattered Penguin edition of Decline and Fall. I discovered these books myself in adolescence. ![]() The early novels of Evelyn Waugh have probably given more pleasure to more readers than any comparable body of work from the same period of English fiction (1928-1942). ![]()
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