Helena
A historical novel that narrates the life of Saint Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, and her quest for truth and the Christian faith in a pagan world. Waugh recreates the Roman era in detail and...
WAUGH, Evelyn
Ronald Knox
Knox is the son of an Anglican bishop in UK, one of the most brilliant students at Eton and Oxford, an extraordinary teacher and friend to colleagues and students. He converted to catholicism in 1917, and...
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh, in this his most famous novel, shows his fascination by both the Catholic faith and the English aristocracy. It is narrated by the architectural painter Charles Ryder who befriends Sebastian...
Remote people
A diary of the journey that the author started in October 1930 to Ethiopia, as a correspondent of The Times newspaper for the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie, and then continued through various African...
Scoop
This is a funny, but at the same time thoughtful and cynical novel about journalism in the thirties of the twentieth century, coinciding with the fashion of reporters on the hunt for news and the emergence...
A Handful of Dust
This is a light-hearted jibe at the mores of British high society between the wars, the story set in 1930’s Victorian England. Even though it deals with tragedy, deceit and despair, the story is told with...
The Loved One
Satire on the American vision of death, and funeral customs. The action is located in Los Angeles, where a group of Englishmen lives. One of them has a funeral house, another is a play writer in Hollywood....