My brother Evelyn, and other profiles / Alec Waugh
1967, 1st edition. London : Cassell. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #399174
Physical description; 340 pp.: illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm. Contents; Part 1. 1. Cousin Edmund -- Sir Edmund Gosse. -- 2. Authors at Underhill -- E. Temple Thurston, Desmond Coke, Ernest Rhys. -- 3. My first publisher -- Grant Richards. -- 4. Frank Swinnerton's Nocturne. -- 5. The soldier poets -- Robert Nichols, Robert Graves, Siegrfied Sassoon, Richard Aldington. -- 6. The University of Mainz -- Hugh Kingsmill, Gerard Hopkins, Milton Hayes, J.F. Holms. -- 8. Ralph Straus. -- 8. W.L. George. -- 9. The bad boy in the Georgian nursery -- Gilbert Cannan, W.W. Jacobs. -- 10. The nail in the coffin -- Hugh Walpole. -- 11. Two poet cricketers -- Clifford Bax, J.C. Squire. -- 12. My brother Evelyn. Part 2. 13. Arthur Waugh's last years. -- 14. My second war. -- 15. The lawyer -- E.S.P. Haynes. -- 16. Son of Oscar Wilde -- Vyvyan Holland. -- 17. Michael Arlen in retirement. -- 18. W.S.M. : R.I.P. -- 19. The Macdowell colony. -- 20. Self-portrait, nearing sixty. -- 21. Island in the sun. Subjects; Waugh, Evelyn 1903-1966 Biography. Waugh, Arthur 1866-1943. Gosse, Edmund 1849-1928. Walpole, Hugh Sir 1884-1941. Authors, English 20th century. English literature History & criticism 20th century.
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