![]() ![]() ![]() Foot of spine faded, small bump to lower edge of rear cover, binding otherwise sharp, contents clean, short close tear to upper margin of pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Evelin Waugh, A Little Learning: the First Volume of an Autobiography, 1964 John Howard Wilson, Evelyn Waugh: a Literary Biography, 1996. Exploring the theme of Catholicism for the first time, the novel was described by Waugh as "an attempt to trace the workings of the divine purpose in a pagan world, in the lives off an English Catholic family, half-paganised themselves, in the world of 1929-39" (Wilson, p. 191) the character of Sebastian Flyte was based on memories of Alastair Graham, one of Waugh's best friends and "romances" during his university years. The author revealed in his autobiography that the story "portrays some aspects of my Oxford life" (Waugh, p. Brideshead Revisited was written from January to June 1944, while Waugh was recovering after breaking his leg during parachute training in December of the previous year. Waugh himself repeatedly referred to this novel as his magnum opus. First trade edition, first impression, of Waugh's most enduring novel, in a well-preserved example of the notoriously fragile jacket produced to war economy standards. ![]()
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