Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.
A hectic piece of savage satire....I laughed until I was driven out
of the room.--V.S. Pritchett, The Spectator
A savage study in public and private morals....It is uproarious. It
is also ferocious.--John K. Hutchens, New York Times
A wickedly witty and iridescent novel.--TIME
Evelyn Waugh is a satirist, no doubt, but not a skeptic, for he
believes, and proves, that amusement can be depriced from the most
unpromising material, from people, that is, whose one occupation in
life is the quest for amusement, people who give and attend
parties.--Saturday Review
It may shock you, but it will make you laugh.--New York Times
Wonderfully funny.--Jessica Mitford, LIFE
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