A Little Learning
Author(s): Evelyn Waugh
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography'. The author begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 01 October 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 February 2012
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Evelyn Waugh
- : Hardback
- : 23
- : 823.912
- : 352
More About The Product
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and 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). Waugh travelled extensively and also wrote several travel books, as well as a biography of Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox.
