Libros de Evelyn Waugh (2 libros)

Waugh begins his autobiographical story with his inheritance, writing of the energetic, literary, and sometimes eccentric men and women who contributed to his genius. His childhood was for the most part warm, bright and serene, but he remembers the Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed as somewhat painful. His life at Oxford was essentially a catalogue of friendship, an exclusive world he recalls with elegant wit and precision. Finally, he closes with his experiences as a master at a preparatory school in North Wales which inspired his work Decline and Fall. Waugh comienza su relato ...

Fiestas de máscaras, fiestas salvajes, fiestas victorianas, fiestas griegas, fiestas del salvaje Oeste, fiestas rusas, fiestas de circo, fiestas en las que uno tenía que disgrazarse de cualquier otro, fiestas a las que se concurrirá casi desnudo, en el bosque de St. John, fiestas en apartamentos y en estudios y en casas y en barcos y en hoteles y en clubs nocturnos, en molinos y en piscinas, tés en la escuela, dondese comían bollos y merengues y cangrejo en lata, fiestas en Oxford, donde se bebía jerez y se fumaban cigarrillos turcos, aburridos bailes enLondres y cómicos bailes en...