A Little Learning (book)
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A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography (1964) is Evelyn Waugh's unfinished auto-biography and memoir. It was published just two years before his death on Easter Sunday, 1966. It covers the period of the author's youth and education.[1] The title is a well-known quotation[2] from Pope's An Essay on Criticism, "A little learning is a dang'rous thing".
In this unfinished work Waugh passes this observation of post-war society in Oxford:
- "It seems that now, after the second war, my contemporaries [at Oxford] are regarded with a mixture of envy and reprobation, as libertines and wastrels."[3]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)". Universidad de Valencia:Literatura Inglesa. 1996-07-17. http://www.uv.es/~fores/waugh.html. Retrieved 2007-06-15.
- ^ Nigel Rees, The Quote ... Unquote Book of Love, Death and the Universe, 1980, ISBN 0-04-827022-9
- ^ Cockburn, Claud (2003-04-26). "quoted in "Evelyn Waugh's Ear Trumpet"". CounterPunch. http://www.counterpunch.org/claud04262003.html. Retrieved 2007-06-15.
[edit] References
- Waugh, Evelyn (1964). A Little Learning (1st ed. ed.). London: Chapman & Hall.
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