Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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EDMUND CAMPION (239 pp.)-Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...
...Evelyn Waugh's feats in prose include one whole book without a line of comedy. This is it. Waugh finished writing it in 1935, some years after his conversion to Roman Catholicism, as a tribute to his faith and to the Jesuits. It is a biographical study, done skillfully and with full respect, of a fabulous Jesuit priest executed by order of Queen Elizabeth...
About a thousand copies of Waugh's book, printed in England, were sold in the U.S. a decade ago. Now that Waugh's Brideshead Revisited is a best-seller (558,000 copies), Little, Brown has published Campion for the first time in the U.S. Lending-library ladies will find little in it of the Waugh they recently took to their breasts...
Lord Inverchapel (pronounced, extraordinarily enough, in-ver-chapel) would never be taken for a precious, blue-veined Evelyn Waugh character. Inverchapel looks and acts like a real, red-blooded Scot...
Robert J. L. Waugh...