Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) possesses the inestimable advantages of being the best writer in English of the twentieth century and not being attractive to the EngLit crowd. He was a conservative Catholic snob, after all, and though many people come to him because they are one or another of those things, or all three, I’m not one of them. I love him because he writes so well – so cleverly and, often, so cruelly. But he is still famous and so I prefer one of his more obscure books, published in 1942 and rarely mentioned with the inevitable Brideshead Revisited (probably one of his weaker books) and Vile Bodies (certainly his weakest one, after Helena) when ...  Read the complete review