{"product_id":"2026100009888-secondhand-a-little-learning-the-first-volume-of-an-autobiography","title":"A Little Learning: The First Volume Of An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Little Learning is the intimate and candid memoir of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated satirical voices, chronicling the formative years of Evelyn Waugh from his privileged Edwardian childhood through his turbulent and dissolute time at Oxford, where he moved in the gilded circles of English literary society. With the sharp wit and elegant prose that defined his fiction, Waugh presents an unflinching self-portrait of a young man shaped by class, ambition, and a restless, searching intelligence — culminating in a darkly revealing account of a youthful suicide attempt that underscores the book's remarkable emotional honesty.\n\nAs the first and only completed volume of his autobiography, A Little Learning stands as an invaluable companion to Waugh's celebrated novels, illuminating the biographical roots of characters and worlds that would populate works such as Decline and Fall and Brideshead Revisited. Waugh's prose is precise and devastating, balancing affectionate nostalgia with an acerbic clarity that lays bare both his era and himself. For readers who know Waugh the novelist, this memoir offers an irresistible question: how much of the man can be found in the myth?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203395789019,"sku":"2026100009888-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1d3ba5ce-2a2f-483c-ba0e-c7e0b8b9b26a.png?v=1788148569","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009888-secondhand-a-little-learning-the-first-volume-of-an-autobiography","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}