The fullest account of Evelyn Waugh yet published, rejecting the stereotyped image of Waugh and revealing a more complex and serious artist behind the malicious clowning. Photographs.

Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939

Literature & Fiction

Stannard, Martin

Essays & Correspondence

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939-1966

A biography of Waugh's last twenty-seven years takes readers through the writer's wartime experiences and discusses his most renowned works and his relationships with Lady Diana Cooper, Graham Greene, his wife, and his children. 12,000 first printing.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

"The Evelyn Waugh who emerges from this fascinating and masterful account is a far different, and a far more complex, figure than the one most readers know."--New York Newsday. Photos.

Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939

W.W.Norton&Company

“Stannard has been the first commentator to make me not only understand but deeply sympathize with the desperate ambivalence in this great novelist between his passionate Christian concern with saving souls (including, of course, his own) and his almost maniacal scorn for the follies and mediocrity of the common man.” ―Louis Auchincloss “Definitive. . . . Deeply researched and pondered.” “A literary biography of the same caliber as Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce.” These words of praise from Edmund Morris in the New York Times and Michael Dirda in the Washington Post are but some of the acclaim that greeted Martin Stannard’s Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939. This eagerly awaited second volume, spanning the years from World War II to Waugh’s death in 1966, completes the portrait of one of the foremost writers of the century. This was the period of some of Waugh’s greatest work, including Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, and the Sword of Honour trilogy.

Evelyn Waugh

J.M.Dent.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 voulme set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

J.M. Dent & Sons

Evelyn Waugh : Early Years 1903-1939

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark became the epitome of literary chic and one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography, recorded her early years but politely blurred her darker moments: troubled relations with her family, a terrifying period of hallucinations, and disastrous affairs with the men she loved. At the age of nineteen, Spark left Scotland to get married in southern Rhodesia, only to divorce and escape back to Britain in 1944. After converting to Catholicism in 1954, she began writing novels that propelled her into the literary stratosphere. These came to include Memento Mori, The Girls of Slender Means, and A Far Cry from Kensington.  Spark achieved international celebrity with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), later adapted into a successful play and film. John Updike, Tennessee Williams, Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene, among others, applauded her work. She lived part-time in New York City, had an office at the New Yorker, and became friends with Shirley Hazzard and W. H. Auden. Spark ultimately settled in Italy, where for more than thirty years—until her death in 2006—she shared a house with the artist Penelope Jardine. Spark gave Martin Stannard full access to her papers. He interviewed her many times as well as speaking to her colleagues, friends, and family members. The result is an indelible portrait of one of the most significant and emotionally complicated writers of the twentieth century, full of strong feeling, sharp wit, and unabashed ambition.

Muriel Spark: The Biography

Northwestern University Press

This is Martin Stannard's first new collection for several years, and it showcases his writing at its best. 'Here is a major book by a major British poet who dances in the ballroom where the avant-garde meets the mainstream and, more importantly, makes us all want to dance there too. In Martin Stannard's hands language is never tired, or threadbare, or past its sell-by date or begrudging or lightweight. Enjoy this book and live in Martin Stannard's amazing world!' (Ian McMillan)

Poems For The Young At Heart

Poetry

Leafe Press

Martin Stannard was the founding editor of joe soap's canoe (1978-1993). He was also poetry editor of the online art and poetry magazine Decals of Desire. In 2007-8 he was the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Nottingham Trent University but, that year aside, he taught English, Literature and Culture at a university in China from 2005 until 2018, when he returned to the UK to retire gracefully. "Here is a major book by a major British poet who dances in the ballroom where the avant-garde meets the mainstream and, more importantly, males us all want to dance there too. In Martin Stannard's hands language is never tired, or threadbare, or past its sell-by date or begrudging or lightweight." -- Ian McMillan, back cover blurb for Poems for the Young at Heart "You can never, it used to be (rightly) said, open Tennyson on the wrong page. The same applies to Stannard . . . (He) is not only an intoxicatingly entertaining poet; here he proves himself one with the emotional assurance and the artistry to strike (after exquisitely delicate preparation) the seriously subjective note." -- D.M. de Silva, at Poetry Salzburg Review on Poems for the Young at Heart

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Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939

Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939-1966

Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939

Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939-1966

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh : Early Years 1903-1939

Muriel Spark: The Biography

Poems For The Young At Heart

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