A Little Learning: The First Volume Of An Autobiography
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary memoir, A Little Learning chronicles the early life of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated satirical novelists, tracing his formative years from a privileged Edwardian childhood through his famously riotous time at Hertford College, Oxford. Written with the same razor-sharp wit and elegant prose that defined his fiction, Waugh presents an unflinching and often self-deprecating portrait of a young man navigating class, ambition, and artistic awakening in interwar Britain. The memoir illuminates the social world that would later become the rich satirical territory of novels like Decline and Fall and Brideshead Revisited, offering readers an invaluable key to understanding the origins of his literary sensibility. Waugh's tone is characteristically dry and precise, balancing candid self-reflection with the arch detachment of a born observer of human folly. Published in 1964, this first and only completed volume of his autobiography stands as an essential document for admirers of his work and for anyone captivated by the glittering, turbulent world of early twentieth-century English literary life.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Chapman & Hall
Genre: Biography
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary memoir, A Little Learning chronicles the early life of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated satirical novelists, tracing his formative years from a privileged Edwardian childhood through his famously riotous time at Hertford College, Oxford. Written with the same razor-sharp wit and elegant prose that defined his fiction, Waugh presents an unflinching and often self-deprecating portrait of a young man navigating class, ambition, and artistic awakening in interwar Britain. The memoir illuminates the social world that would later become the rich satirical territory of novels like Decline and Fall and Brideshead Revisited, offering readers an invaluable key to understanding the origins of his literary sensibility. Waugh's tone is characteristically dry and precise, balancing candid self-reflection with the arch detachment of a born observer of human folly. Published in 1964, this first and only completed volume of his autobiography stands as an essential document for admirers of his work and for anyone captivated by the glittering, turbulent world of early twentieth-century English literary life.