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Does anyone here like Evelyn Waugh. I'm personally a huge fan. His novels changed my way of thinking, I became much more imbued with a sense of tradition as well as reforming my republican (anti-monarchy) leanings.

>> No.3976411

I recently finished Brideshead revisited and loved it

What should I read next?

>> No.3976416

>>3976411
A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies.

>> No.3976418

>>3976411
Delicious homosexual tension.

>> No.3976422

>>3976398
He is popular in my house and with my oldest son's friends

>> No.3976434

>>3976411
Sword of Honour Trilogy, Decline and Fall and Scoop!.

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>>3976434
>dem feels at the end of DaF

>> No.3976475

Evelyn Waugh deserves more love on /lit/.

>That scene where the bloke with the stutter is forced to read T.S Elliot.

>>3976398

I think he captured the "spirit of Englishness" quite well in Brideshead Revisited.

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>Dat crushed, world hating Catholicism in the SoH trilogy