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Seeking the Divine Spark: A Satire in the Style of Evelyn Waugh
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This is a novel in the style of Evelyn Waugh's early satires. It satirises the way the media, lawyers and promoters of a gay lifestyle deal with clerical sexual abuse. It is a tale of outrageous hypocrisy that will sometimes make you laugh, sometimes cringe, and sometimes leave you appalled, but will always be 'glittering' in its satire, as one reviewer put it.
This is a novel in the style of Evelyn Waugh's early satires. It satirises the way the media, lawyers and promoters of a gay lifestyle deal with clerical sexual abuse. It is a tale of outrageous hypocrisy that will sometimes make you laugh, sometimes cringe, and sometimes leave you appalled, but will always be 'glittering' in its satire, as one reviewer put it.
Charles Taylor and Liberia: Ambition and Atrocity in Africa's Lone Star State
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Campaigner, insurgent, arms dealer, warlord, commodity trafficker, elected president, international fugitive, and finally prisoner, Charles Taylor sought to lead his native Liberia to change but instead destroyed it in a frenzy of violence, greed, and uncontrolled personal ambition. In the process, he threw much of Liberia's neighboring region into turmoil for over a decade, finally facing judgement in The Hague for his role in the Sierra Leone conflict. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, Colin Waugh examines both the life of Taylor himself, as well as the sometimes idealistic but often self-interested efforts of the international community to first save Liberia and the region from disaster, then, having failed to do so, to bring to justice the man it deems most to blame for the turmoil.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. Evelyn Waugh (Penguin Essentials)
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'I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds'. Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world where duty and desire, faith and earthly happiness are in conflict; a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian. A scintillating depiction of the decadent, privileged aristocracy prior to the Second World War, "Brideshead Revisited" is widely regarded as Evelyn Waugh's finest work.
Family of Fallen Leaves: Stories of Agent Orange by Vietnamese Writers
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This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war. Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed approximately twenty million gallons of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliants on Vietnam and Laos, exposing combatants and civilians from both sides to the deadly contaminant dioxin. Many of the exposed, and later their children, suffered from ailments including diabetes, cancer, and birth defects. This remarkably diverse collection represents a body of work published after the early 1980s that stirred sympathy and indignation in Vietnam, pressuring the Vietnamese government for support. “Thirteen Harbors” intertwines a woman’s love for a dioxin victim with ancient Cham legend and Vietnamese folk wisdom. “A Child, a Man” explores how our fates are bound with those of our neighbors. In “The Goat Horn Bell” and “Grace,” families are devastated to find the damage from Agent Orange passed to their newborn children. Eleven of the pieces appear in English for the first time, including an essay by Minh Chuyen, whose journalism helped publicize the Agent Orange victims’ plight. The stories in Family of Fallen Leaves are harrowing yet transformative in their ability to make us identify with the other.
Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell (American Civil War Classics)
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First published in 1907, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell presents the biography and collected correspondence of the nephew of poet and abolitionist leader James Russell Lowell. The volume spans both the younger Lowell's collegiate education and his military service in the American Civil War. A native Bostonian, Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864) was first in the Harvard class of 1854. He joined the Union ranks a fervent abolitionist and fought with near-reckless zeal until his death in battle at Cedar Creek, Virginia, in October 1864. Lowell served on Gen. George B. McClellan's staff in 1862, fought John S. Mosby's Confederate raiders in 1863 and 1864, and participated in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign as cavalry brigade commander. This first paperback edition of Lowell's biography and correspondence is supplemented by an introduction by Joan Waugh in which she investigates the connection between Lowell's values and actions. Her examination of the inherent sense of duty demonstrated by Lowell, his family, and fellows offers a distinctively Boston Brahmin answer to why young men of the North and South took up arms and went to war.
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Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula ...
Telegraph.co.uk - Aug 14, 2009
This is LondonShe shows intelligently that as the Lygons had an enormous effect on Waugh, so the Flytes do on Charles Ryder. There's no point looking for direct Brideshead Revisited author Evelyn Waugh 'had three homosexual Brideshead author Evelyn Waugh 'and his three homosexual lovers at Author claims Waugh had three male lovers at universityall 6 news articles »
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Evelyn Waugh 'had three homosexual affairs at Oxford'
Telegraph.co.uk - Feb 04, 2294
Evelyn Waugh 'had three homosexual affairs at Oxford'"As Waugh's own brother said, there is a very heavy dose of autobiography in Brideshead." The writer left heavy hints that the relationship between Charles 'Brideshead Revisited' author Evelyn Waugh outed as bisexual in Mad World by Paula ByrneSex scandal behind Brideshead Revisited and Canberraall 6 news articles »
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Glance-PRESS DIGEST - British business - Aug 14
Forbes - Aug 14, 2009
Simon Waugh, the former sales and marketing chief at Centrica , appointed to run the board. CMC reported a 15.1 million 16.3 million from writing down
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Joe Cox suddenly has critics, but he really doesn't care
Atlanta Journal Constitution - Feb 04, 7116
Joe Cox suddenly has critics, but he really doesn't care(Bill Waugh photo special to the AJC) Athens — A week ago he was DJ Shockley, the senior quarterback who waited his turn and would lead Georgia to the SEC and more »
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Judge affirms dismissal of Hunterdon, Warren lawsuit against ...
Hunterdon County Democrat - Sep 04, 2009
In his opinion upholding the dismissal, Judge Alexander Waugh, Jr. wrote that the appellate judges found no merit to any of the arguments put forth by the and more »
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