Possessed
A.N. Wilson, 14 May 1992
Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966
by Martin Stannard.
Dent, 523 pp., £25, April 1992,0 460 86062 3 Show More
by Martin Stannard.
Dent, 523 pp., £25, April 1992,
“... that was a sort of martyrdom too. It would be unkind, in this context, to recall that when Hugh Trevor-Roper reviewed Waugh’s life of Campion, the headline was ‘Twice Martyred’, but, if there is a library in Purgatory, Stannard’s book, with its frequent grammatical solecisms, its plodding attempts at psychiatry and its crude view of the class ... ”