Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
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Author(s)Paula Byrne
PublisherHarper Perennial
ISBN / ASIN0060881313
ISBN-139780060881313
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank683,796
CategoryBiography & Autobiography
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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A terrifically engaging and original biography of one of England’s greatest novelists, Evelyn Waugh, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched, and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited. Fans of The Mitfords, D.J. Taylor’s Bright Young People, and Alexander Waugh’s Fathers and Sons, as well as Anglophiles in general, will find much to savor in Paula Byrne’s wonderful Mad World.
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