![]() ![]() The woman keeps an American Negro lover, (very risqué for 1928), and her business turns out to be a prostitution racket. ![]() An aristocratic mother of one of his pupils then employs him in her business. Evelyn attempted to imitate the sexual undertones of his brother's successful book in Decline and Fall (1928), in which a student, Paul Pennyfeather, is expelled from Oxford and becomes a private school-master. Waugh attended Hertford College, Oxford, in the 1920s, by which time his brother Alec, who had been expelled from his public school for homosexuality, had already gained notoriety as a writer with his novel The Loom of Youth (1917). ![]() In 1981 a critically-acclaimed 13-part ITV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited drew popular attention to the novel, The Loved One and Decline and Fall were filmed in 1965, The Sword of Honour was adapted for TV in 1967, and a film of Vile Bodies, directed by Stephen Fry and renamed Bright Young Things, appeared in 2003. ![]() John Waugh’s reputation as a prose stylist is due to the elegance and wit of his early novels, which remain highly readable though his general fame may be credited to cinema and TV versions of his works. ![]()
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