Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939-1966

“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 ...