February 2011
2 posts
Decline and Fall
I have just finished reading Evelyn Waugh’s first novel. I found it, to use the old cliche, impossible to put down, which is unusual for me, as I have a tendency to flit from book to book, and often have several on the go at once.
It’s the first time that I have read Waugh, and I regret having not done so sooner. The Economist’s Bagehot columnist said Waugh had the...
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