Evelyn Waugh

30 The experience of travel is translated, in the text , into a travel plot. As a result, reports of one and the same journey by various authors can be very different without one being more ‘true’ than the other. Evelyn Waugh, at the opening of Ninety Two Days (1934), stresses his role as re-creator and transla tor of the original experience: Just as a carpenter, I suppose, a piece of rough ti mber an inclination to plane it and square it and put it in to shape, so…

“The class is in the eye of the beholder.” Especially in the book entitled Past Imperfect which follows the lives of rich and powerful people. The book was written by Julian Fellowes. Julian Fellowes was born in Egypt where his father worked in the British Embassy. He grew up in England and attended Cambridge where he enrolled to drama school. He was a “part-time actor for ages” and had appearances for more than 40 movies and TV shows. In the middle for his career in acting, Fellowes…

imagination, — based on Evans' ideas". Archaeologists and members of the general public often remark on the similarity between Cretan painting and art nouveau, but this is because Gilliéron was an art nouveau artist. Author and ancient history enthusiast Evelyn Waugh remarked that Gilliéron had ‘tempered their zeal for accurate reconstruction with a somewhat inappropriate predilection for covers of…

Potok “was especially drawn to two important novels by Roman Catholic writers, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh and James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, saying that they guided him toward a career,” (Newsmakers). These two authors impacted Potok as a child and were a big reason he decided to start writing. However, “it was Waugh’s novel that…

Science fiction is a genre that has persisted for perhaps longer than what one might think. When classifying the genre, there are elements of technology and they are typically set in the future. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy implements such elements, but takes the issues of life, the universe, and everything and puts a funnier spin to them. This allows the author to take serious issues in society and point out the ridiculousness of situations. Absurdity is perhaps the main theme of the…

Dame Muriel Spark (Feb. 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) “an arcane puzzle in the mapping of contemporary literature” (Sawada 11), occupies an important place among the post-war British novelists. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Quite early in her life she decided to adopt writing as a profession and began writing seriously after the war. Spark started her writing career with poetry and literary criticism, under her married name.…

Introduction: In 1939, modern world’s largest conflagration started, when Germany invaded Poland and ended with Japan’s surrender in 1945. When Adolf Hitler, despite signing nonaggression pact with soviet forces, attacked Poland, Britain and France countered the act by declaring war on Germany. The events that followed were fall of Norway and Denmark at the hands of Nazi forces and invasion of lower countries. The war deteriorated when Nazi forces attacked Soviet Union, violating the…