Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) was a British writer, journalist and reviewer, generally considered one of the leading English prose writers of the 20th century. The following lists his fiction, travel and biographical works, together with selected articles and reviews.
Juvenilia and undergraduate writing
edit| Year | Title | First publication details | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | "The Curse of the Horse Race" | In Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscenses, Dame Ethel Smyth and others. Cobden-Sanderson, London 1932 | [1] | |
| 1910–14 | "Fidon's Confetion" | In Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice: The Early Writings, 1910–27, R.M. Davis (ed.). Pilgrim Books, Norman, Oklahoma 1985 | [1] | |
| 1912 | "Multa Pecunia" | Appeared in The Pistol Troop Magazine, 1912. Published in Evelyn Waugh: The Complete Short Stories, Ann Pasternak Slater (ed.), Everyman's Library (David Campbell Publishers Ltd), London 1998 | [1] | |
| 1916 | "The World to Come: A Poem in Three Cantos" | Unpublished | Privately printed by Arthur Waugh in 1916 | [2] |
| 1920 | Untitled: "Fragment of a Novel" | In Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice: The Early Writings, 1910–27, R. M. Davis (ed.) Pilgrim Books, Norman, Oklahoma 1985 | [1] | |
| 1921 | "Essay" (story fragment) | In Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice: The Early Writings, 1910–27, R. M. Davis (ed.), Pilgrim Books, Norman, Oklahoma 1985 | [1] | |
| 1921 | "The House: An Anti-Climax" | In Evelyn Waugh, Apprentice: The Early Writings, 1910–27, R. M. Davis (ed.), Pilgrim Books, Norman, Oklahoma 1985 | [1] | |
| 1923 | "Portrait of Young Man with Career" | The Isis, 30 May 1923 | [1] | |
| 1923 | "Antony, Who Sought Things That Were Lost" | The Cherwell 1 August 1923 | [1] | |
| 1923 | "Antony, Who Sought Things That Were Lost" | The Oxford Broom, June 1923 | [1] | |
| 1923 | "Edward of Unique Achievement" | The Cherwell, 1 August 1923 | [1] | |
| 1923 | "They Dine With the Past" (fragments) | The Cherwell, 15 August 1923 | [1] | |
| 1923 | "Conspiracy to Murder" | The Cherwell 5 September 1923 | [1] | |
| 1923 | "Unacademic Exercise: A Nature Story" | The Cherwell 19 September 1923 | [1] | |
| 1923 | "The National Game" | The Cherwell 26 September 1923 | [1] |
Novels
edit| Year | Title | First publication details | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924–25 | The Temple at Thatch | Unpublished | Manuscript destroyed | [3] |
| 1928 | Decline and Fall | Chapman and Hall, London, 1928 | Revised edition with new preface by Waugh, Chapman and Hall, London, 1962 | [2] |
| 1930 | Vile Bodies | Chapman and Hall, London, 1930 | Revised edition with new preface by Waugh, Chapman and Hall, London, 1965 | [2] |
| 1932 | Black Mischief | Chapman and Hall, London, 1932 | Revised edition with new preface by Waugh, Chapman and Hall, London, 1962 | [2] |
| 1934 | A Handful of Dust | Chapman and Hall, London, 1934 | Revised edition with new preface by Waugh, Chapman and Hall, London, 1964 | [4] |
| 1938 | Scoop | Chapman and Hall, London, 1938 | Revised edition with new preface by Waugh, Chapman and Hall, London, 1964 | [4] |
| 1939 | My Father's House (first section of Work Suspended) | Horizon, Vol. IV, No. 23, November 1941 | Retitled "A Death" when republished as part of Work Suspended | [4] |
| 1939 | Work Suspended | Limited edition, 500 copies, Chapman and Hall, London 1942 | Revised version Work Suspended and Other Stories Chapman and Hall, London, 1949 | [4] |
| 1942 | Put Out More Flags | Chapman and Hall, London 1942 | Revised edition with new preface by Waugh, Chapman and Hall, London, 1967 | [4] |
| 1945 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder | Chapman and Hall, London, 1945 | Revised edition with new preface by Waugh, Chapman and Hall, London, 1960 | [4] |
| 1948 | The Loved One | Chapman and Hall, London, 1948 | Revised edition with new preface by Waugh, Chapman and Hall, London, 1965 | [5] |
| 1950 | Helena | Chapman and Hall, London, 1950 | [5] | |
| 1952 | Men at Arms | Chapman and Hall, London, 1952 | See also Sword of Honour, below | [5] |
| 1953 | Love Among the Ruins | Chapman and Hall, London, 1953 | [5] | |
| 1955 | Officers and Gentlemen | Chapman and Hall, London, 1955 | See also Sword of Honour, below | [5] |
| 1957 | The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold | Chapman and Hall, London, 1957 | [5] | |
| 1961 | Unconditional Surrender | Chapman and Hall, London, 1961 | See also Sword of Honour, below | [5] |
| 1965 | Sword of Honour trilogy | Chapman and Hall, London, 1965 | Single volume version of Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender with text amendments | [5] |
Short fiction
edit| Year | Title | First publication details | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | "The Balance: A Yarn of the Good Old Days of Broad Trousers and High Necked Jumpers" | In Alec Waugh (ed.): Georgian Short Stories, Chapman and Hall, London, 1926 | [6] | |
| 1927 | "A House of Gentlefolks" | In Hugh Chesterman (ed.): The New Decameron, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927 | Originally published as "The Tutor's Tale" | [6] |
| 1930 | "The Manager of 'The Kremlin'" | In a series of "Real Life Stories by Famous Authors", John Bull, 15 February 1930 | [6] | |
| 1932 | "Love in the Slump" | Harper's Bazaar, London, January 1932 | Originally published as "The Patriotic Honeymoon" | [6] |
| 1932 | "Too Much Tolerance" | No. 7 in a series of "The Seven Deadly Sins", John Bull, 21 May 1932 | [6] | |
| 1932 | "Excursion in Reality" | Harper's Bazaar, New York, July 1932 | Originally published as "An Entirely New Angle" | [6] |
| 1932 | "Incident in Azania" | Windsor Magazine, December 1932 | [6] | |
| 1932 | "Bella Fleace Gave a Party" | Harper's Bazaar, London, December 1932 | [6] | |
| 1933 | "Cruise" | Harper's Bazaar, London, February 1933 | [6] | |
| 1933 | "The Man Who Liked Dickens" | Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, September 1933 | Used as the basis for the final chapter of A Handful of Dust, 1934 | [6] |
| 1933 | "Out of Depth" | Harper's Bazaar, London, December 1933 | Subtitled: "An Experiment begun in Shaftesbury Avenue and Ended in Time" | [6] |
| 1934 | "By Special Request" | Harper's Bazaar, New York, October 1934 | The final episode in A Flat in London, the serialised version of A Handful of Dust | [7] |
| 1934 | "Period Piece" | In Mr Loveday's Little Outing and Other Sad Stories, Chapman and Hall, London, 1936 | [7] | |
| 1935 | "Mr Loveday's Little Outing" | As "Mr Cruttwell's Little Outing" in Harper's Bazaar, New York, March 1935 | [7] | |
| 1936 | "Winner Takes All" | Strand, March 1936 | [7] | |
| 1938 | "An Englishman's Home" | Good Housekeeping, London, August 1939 | [7] | |
| 1939 | "The Sympathetic Passenger" | The Daily Mail 4 May 1939 | Part of the "Tight Corner" series | [7] |
| 1945 | "Charles Ryder's Schooldays" | The Times Literary Supplement, 5 March 1982 | With introduction by Michael Sissons | [7] |
| 1946 | "Scott-King's Modern Europe" | (abridged) Cornhill, Summer 1947 | Published as "A Sojourn in Neutralia" in Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, November 1947 | [7] |
| 1947 | "Tactical Exercise" | "Strand", March 1947 | Published as "The Wish" in Good Housekeeping, New York, March 1947 | [7] |
| 1949 | "Compassion" | As "The Major Intervenes" in The Atlantic, July 1949 | Expanded and republished as "Compassion" in The Month, August 1949 | [7] |
| 1962 | "Basil Seal Rides Again" | Chapman and Hall, London, 1963 | [7] |
Travel writing
edit| Year | Title | First publication details | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Labels: A Mediterranean Journal | Duckworth, London, 1930 | Published in US as A Bachelor Abroad, Cape, Smith, New York, 1930 | [8] |
| 1931 | Remote People | Duckworth, London 1931 | Published in US as They Were Still Dancing, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1932 | [8] |
| 1934 | Ninety-two Days: The Account of a Tropical Journey Through British Guiana and Part of Brazil | Duckworth, London, 1934 | [8] | |
| 1936 | Waugh in Abyssinia | Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1936 | [8] | |
| 1939 | Robbery Under Law | Chapman and Hall, London, 1939 | Published in US as Mexico: an Object-Lesson Little, Brown, Boston, 1939 | [8] |
| 1946 | When the Going Was Good | Duckworth, London, 1946 | An anthology from the 1930s books | [8] |
| 1952 | The Holy Places | Queen Anne Press, London, 1952 | [8] | |
| 1960 | A Tourist in Africa | Chapman and Hall, London, 1960 | [8] |
Biography and autobiography
edit| Year | Title | First publication details | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | Rossetti: His Life and Works | Duckworth, London, 1928 | [8] | |
| 1935 | Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr | Longmans, London, 1935 | [8] | |
| 1959 | The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox | Chapman and Hall, London, 1959 | [8] | |
| 1964 | A Little Learning: the First Volume of an Autobiography | Chapman and Hall, London, 1964 | [8] | |
| 1919–1965 | The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1976 | [8] | |
| 1914–1966 | The Letters of Evelyn Waugh | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980 | [8] |
Miscellaneous works
edit| Year | Title | First publication details | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | Wine in Peace and War | Privately printed by Saccone & Speed Ltd, 1947 | [9] | |
| 1949 | A Selection from the Occasional Sermons of The Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald Knox | The Dropmore Press, London, 1949 | [10] |
Essays, reviews and journalism
editThe Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh (Ed. Donat Gallagher, Methuen, London 1983) reprints the texts of more than 200 pieces by Waugh, published in the period 1917 to 1965. More than 300 further titles are listed but not reprinted.[11] In his Life of Evelyn Waugh, Douglas Lane Patey provides a list of the more significant pieces.[12]
- 1917: "In Defence of Cubism" (Drama and Design, November 1917); Waugh's first published article
- 1921: "The Youngest Generation"
- 1926: "P.R.B."
- 1929: "The War and the Younger Generation" (Spectator, 13 April 1929)
- 1930: "Converted to Rome" (Daily Express, 20 October 1930)
- 1930: "Ethiopia Today: Romance and reality" (The Times, 22 December 1930)
- 1932: "Why Glorify Youth?" (Woman's Journal, March 1932)
- 1933: An Open Letter to the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster"
- 1941: "Commando Raid on Bardia"
- 1946: "Fan Fare" (Life, 8 April 1946)
- 1946: "What to do with the Upper Classes" (Town and Country, September 1946)
- 1947: "Why Hollywood is a Term of Disparagement" (The Daily Telegraph, 30 April 1947)
- 1947: "Death in Hollywood"
- 1949: "Come Inside" (in The Road to Damascus, ed. John A. O'Brien, New York and London 1949)
- 1949: "The American Epoch in the Catholic Church" (Life [Chicago], 19 September 1949)
- 1952: "Our Guest of Dishonour" (Sunday Express 30 November 1952)
- 1953: "Mr Waugh Replies" (Spectator, 3 July 1953)
- 1955: "Awake My Soul! It is a Lord" (Spectator, 8 July 1955)
- 1957: "Anything Wrong with Priestley?" (Spectator, 13 September 1957)
- 1959: "I See Nothing but Boredom...Everywhere" (Daily Mail, 28 December 1959)
- 1961: "An Act of Homage and Reparation to P. G. Wodehouse" (Radio broadcast, BBC, 15 July 1961; Printed in Sunday Times, 16 July 1961)
- 1962: "Sloth" (Sunday Times, 7 January 1962 in The Seven Deadly Sins series)
- 1962: "Eldorado Revisited" (National Review 9 October 1962)
- 1962: "The Same Again, Please" (Spectator, 23 November 1962)
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Slater (ed,) pp, x and 595
- ^ a b c d Stannard, Vol. II p. 496
- ^ Stannard, Vol. I, p. 112
- ^ a b c d e f Stannard, Vol. II p. 497
- ^ a b c d e f g h Stannard, Vol. II, p. 498
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Slater (ed.) p. 593
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Slater (ed.), p. 594
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Stannard, Vol I pp. 505–07
- ^ Patey, pp. 258 & 395
- ^ Patey, p. 408
- ^ Gallagher, pp. 640–50
- ^ Patey, pp. ix–x
Sources
edit- Gallagher, Donat, ed. (1983). The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-50370-4.
- Patey, Douglas Lane (1998). The Life of Evelyn Waugh. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-18933-5.
- Pasternak Slater, Ann, ed. (1998). Evelyn Waugh: The Complete Short Stories. London: Everyman's. ISBN 1-85715-190-9.
- Stannard, Martin (1993). Evelyn Waugh, Volume I: The Early Years 1903–39. London: Flamingo. ISBN 0-586-08678-1.
- Stannard, Martin (1993). Evelyn Waugh, Volume II: No Abiding City 1939–1966. London: Flamingo. ISBN 0-586-08680-3.