The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh

Edited by Michael Davie.

Evelyn Waugh kept a diary almost continuously from the age of seven until a year before his death in 1966. Extracts from the diaries caused sensation when they were published by the Observer. They are a unique literary document of 300 000 words which provide the background to the novels which made Waugh famous and gives a continuously sharp and baleful view of the social history of our times. THE DIARIES throw new light not only on Waugh's work, but on the character of a puzzling, cantankerous and formidable man.