Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Personal Writings 1903-1921: Precocious Waughs: Volume 30 (The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh) - Hardcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019965896X ISBN 13: 9780199658961

Publisher: Oxford University Press(UK), 2017

Synopsis

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence, which collates all Waugh's letters, diaries, and other personal writings in chronological order.

Volume one of the series covers the years 1903-1921, ending with Waugh's departure from Lancing College, aged 18, with a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford. For many years at Lancing Waugh kept a daily account of his life, and every diary entry is reprinted here along with the lively pen-and ink drawings that accompanied them and the letters he sent to his parents and friends. No other book presents such a rich anthology of writing by a school-boy, let alone one who would later turn into a major literary figure and novelist of genius.

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Review:

Expertly edited [..] The editor's notes to the new volume of early letters and diaries are not only extremely thorough and informative, but also, as one might expect from the grandson of Evelyn Waugh, very witty [...] If these initial offerings (Volumes two, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-six and thirty) are an indicator of things to come, then the edition will justify its grandiose claim to "revolutionize Waugh studies" [...] It will indeed become one of the great monuments of twenty-first-century literary scholarship. (Paula Byrne, Times Literary Supplement)

a welcome opportunity to look again at [Waugh's] evolution as a writer and thinke...These volumes reveal different aspects of Waugh's youthful plasticity and show how his adult persona developed as he tested himself as a write [...] a major event in Waugh scholarship, and...an essential research resource for many years to come. (Lisa Mullen, Worcester College, Oxford, Essays in Criticism)

If these initial offerings are an indicator of things to come, then the edition will justify its grandiose claim to "revolutionize Waugh studies" ... It will indeed become one of the great monuments of twenty-first century literary scholarship. (Paula Byrne, The Times Literary Supplement)

As scholarship the new editions cannot be faulted. (Matthew Walther, The Week)

As a scholarly treatment of a modern British novelist, The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh looks as if it will stand in a class of its own, not only for its presentation of definitive texts but also for its patient accumulation of large amounts of personal material that have hitherto escaped the biographers' gaze. (D.J Taylor, Literary Review)

A must read. (David Sexton, Evening Standard)

About the Author:

Alexander Waugh is a critic and author. He has written several books including Time (1999), God (1002), Fathers and Sons (2005), The House of Wittgenstein (2009), and Shakespeare in Court (2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 019965896X
• ISBN 13: 9780199658961
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 490
• Editor: Waugh Alexander, Bell Alan