![]() Suspicious of the modern, Waugh looked instead for comfort in the past. He had just attended mass and his favourite daughter, Meg, believed he’d been praying for death. He suffered a massive coronary thrombosis at his home on April 10 1966. It was intended as the first volume of a longer work but he died before its sequel, aptly named A Little Hope, was finished. ![]() He was wrong about that – two novels of the acclaimed World War II trilogy Sword of Honour appeared during this decade of despair – nevertheless, Waugh had turned his back on the material world by the time his autobiography appeared in 1964. For ten years he’d struggled with deep depression, relying heavily on alcohol and prescription sedatives and putting all his energy into a talent he believed was fading. ![]() Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.Įvelyn Waugh was only 60 when he wrote this downbeat opening to his memoir, A Little Learning. ![]()
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