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. Volume one of Essays, Articles, and Reviews contains every known piece of journalism written by Waugh between January 1922 and December 1934, many of which haver never previously been reprinted.
Review Quotes: "The general reader will encounter this specialized volume is a question best left to the imagination, but they will surely be grateful to come across the volume's editorial prowess. This is an enriching addition to the corpus of Wavian studies, which will hold our attention as we wait for subsequent volumes of the project." -- Marshall McGraw, EVELYN WAUGH STUDIES
"Gallagher's superb introduction traces the trajectory of Waugh's extensive journalism from his Oxford days, and his impecunious years as a young writer before the immense success of Vile Bodies, which propelled him into the position as one of the most sought-after bright young writers [...] 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