Consider the Lilies - Softcover

Waugh, Auberon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860720802 ISBN 13: 9780860720805

Publisher: Robin Clark Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

In this entertaining biography the late Auberon Waugh charts the events of the first 50 years of his life. A man whose style of writing made him either loved or hated, this autobiography offers readers a glimpse of the man behind the famously vituperative articles. The book covers his difficult childhood, his time at Oxford (cut short after he failed his first year examinations) and his subsequent career choice: 'There are only two possible careers for a man who has been sent down from Oxford. You must either become a schoolmaster or a spy,' pronounced his father. Auberon was to prove unsuccessful in applying to be the latter, and unable to stomach being the former. His career in journalism began when he landed a job on Queen magazine, and continued when he became the diary columnist on the Daily Telegraph. The story of his subsequent career, and his encounters with friends and with enemies, is told with wit and evident enjoyment. However ambivalent the reader's feelings at the start, it is impossible not to warm to the writer of this irreverent, amusing account.

An exceptionally prolific journalist, Auberon Waugh also wrote 5 novels, the first of which, The Foxglove Saga, he wrote while still at Oxford, and had published before his 21st birthday. Consider the Lilies (0-7551-0551-6) will be reissued alongside his autobiography in February. Paths of Dalliance (0-7551-0554-0), Who are the Violets Now (0-7551-0555-9), A Bed of Flowers (0-7551-0553-2), and The Foxglove Saga (0-7551-0552-4) will follow over the next few months.

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About the Author

A journalist, satirist and novelist, Auberon Waugh was born in Dulverton, Somerset, in 1939, the eldest son of Evelyn Waugh. He was educated at Downside and Christ Church, Oxford, where he made a number of lifelong friends and the first of his enemies. Vendettas were to be a feature of his journalism. Waugh was a columnist for The Spectator for more than twenty years and wrote a diary for Private Eye for fifteen. He was a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph (most famously his 'Way of the World' column which ran for ten years) and the Sunday Telegraph for much of his working life. He became editor of The Literary Review in 1986. In addition to his witty, 'vituperative' columns, Waugh wrote five novels. Auberon Waugh died in 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Robin Clark Ltd
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0860720802
• ISBN 13: 9780860720805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256