Waugh, Eve‧lyn /wɔː, ˈiːvlən/
(1903–66) a British writer known especially for his novels about
upper-class English people in the period between World War I and World War II. His early books, such as
Decline and Fall, are very funny
satires on English
upper-class society, but his later books, such as
Brideshead Revisited, are much more serious.
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