A Little Learning (book)

A Little Learning (book)

"A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography" (1964) is Evelyn Waugh's unfinished auto-biography and memoir. It was published just two year before his death on Easter Sunday, 1966. It covers the period of the author's youth and education [cite web | title=Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) | last= | first= | work=Universidad de Valencia:Literatura Inglesa | url=http://www.uv.es/~fores/waugh.html | date=1996-07-17 | accessdate=2007-06-15 ] .

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." [cite web | title=quoted in "Evelyn Waugh's Ear Trumpet" | last=Cockburn | first=Claud | work=CounterPunch | url=http://www.counterpunch.org/claud04262003.html | date=2003-04-26 | accessdate=2007-06-15 ]

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*cite book | title=A Little Learning | last=Waugh | first=Evelyn | authorlink=Evelyn Waugh | publisher=Chapman & Hall | location=London | edition=1st ed. | year=1964 | id=


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