Mad World: Evelyn Waugh & Secrets of Brideshead
A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England`s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, `Brideshead Revisited`. Evelyn Waugh was already famous when `Brideshead Revisited` was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war, the novel was, he admitted, of no `immediate propaganda value`. Instead, it was the story of a household, a family and a journey of religious faith - an elegy, in many ways, for a vanishing world and a testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. The Lygons of Madresfield were every bit as glamorous, eccentric and compelling...
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011