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Describes the life of one of England's greatest novelists and the friendship he shared with a glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that inspired his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited. By the author of Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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A terrifically engaging and original biography of one of England’s greatest novelists, Evelyn Waugh, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched, and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited. Fans of The Mitfords, D.J. Taylor’s Bright Young People, and Alexander Waugh’s Fathers and Sons, as well as Anglophiles in general, will find much to savor in Paula Byrne’s wonderful Mad World.
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