Works, it continued the tradition of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard While he worked as a schoolmaster at Arnold House. I'll tell you the story of myĭecline and Fall was loosely based on Waugh's experiences If you throw straight at it, you fall short aim above, and with Were throwing cricket-balls when you were that age, but it's the same When I was a kid that used to be great sport in our yard I daresay you You probably won't get what you want, but you may get something aim 'Aim high' has been my motto, 'said Sir Humphrey, 'all through my life. London Society, but in the end he escapes to a saner and happier life. Pennyfeather who is expelled from Oxford. The novel Decline and Fall, an episodic story of Paul His literary reputation Waugh established with Fuelled with admiration for Pre-Raphaelites, Waugh wrote hisįirst book on Rossetti. He walked out into the water and began swimming but decided to Three years before starting his career as a writer, Waugh attempted North Wales, and then devoted himself to writing. He then worked for a short time as a schoolmaster at Arnold House in Waugh studied in London at Heatherley's Art School. After being dismissed, Alec Waugh wrote an autobiographicalīook of the event, which in practice had prevented Evelyn from entering His college years WaughĪlec, his brother, had an homosexual relationship at the SherbornĬollege. He returned to his experiences in his novels. Sophisticated - it was savage and amoral,Īnd at Lancing College Waugh was was bullied by his classmates. The behavior of the upper-class student was not especially Waugh was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and at HertfordĬollege, Oxford, where he read modern history.

(1840-1906), known by his family as 'the Brute,' invented Waugh's Long His his father, Arthur Waugh (1866-1943), a publisher and literaryĬritic, who preferred Evelyn's older brother Alec. Evelyn had a better relationship with her than with Catherine (Raban) Waugh, his mother, was born in India, but Was to that first visit that my heart returned on this, my latest.' (from Brideshead Revisited )Įvelyn Waugh was born in London into a comfortable middle-classįamily. Splendour, and though I had been there so often, in so many moods, it Heavy with all the scents of summer it was a day of peculiar 'I have been here before,' I said I had been thereīefore first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudlessĭay in June, when the ditches were creamy with meadowsweet and the air It was made intoĪ celebrated television series, starring Jeremy IronsĪnd Anthony Andrews, and shown on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in 1981. (1945), depicting the Oxford world of the late 1920s. Among Waugh's most popular books is Brideshead Revisited A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĮnglish writer, regarded by many as the leading satirical novelist of his day.

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