Description: This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's writings for the first time. A Little Learning (1964), Waugh's only book-length autobiography, offers unrivalled insight into his family and early years as well as the cultural and literary influences that shaped his view of the world.
Review Quotes: "The inclusion of the interviews is a much welcome addition to the book. If the other volumes come up to the standards achieved in this one, the project will be a major scholarly success." -- Jeffrey Manley, EVELYN WAUGH STUDIES
"exemplary [...] If these initial offerings (Volumes two, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-six and thirty) are an indicator of things to come, then the edition will justify its grandiose claim to "revolutionize Waugh studies" [...] It will indeed become one of the great monuments of twenty-first-century literary scholarship." -- Paula Byrne, Times Literary Supplement"a welcome opportunity to look again at [Waugh's] evolution as a writer and thinke...These volumes reveal different aspects of Waugh's youthful plasticity and show how his adult persona developed as he tested himself as a write [...] a major event in Waugh scholarship, and...an essential research resource for many years to come." -- Lisa Mullen, Worcester College, Oxford, Essays in Criticism"As a scholarly treatment of a modern British novelist, The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh looks as if it will stand in a class of its own, not only for its presentation of definitive texts but also for its patient accumulation of large amounts of personal material that have hitherto escaped the biographers' gaze." --D.J Taylor, Literary Review"A must read." --David Sexton, Evening Standard