A Little Order by Waugh, Evelyn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents About the Author Introduction A Little Order

1. Myself …

The Youngest Generation Oxford and the Next War Take Your Home Into Your Own Hands! Too Young at Forty Careers for Our Sons: Literature The War and the Younger Generation People Who Want to Sue Me Was Oxford Worth While? This Sun-bathing Business Let Us Return to the Nineties Why Glorify Youth? Tolerance General Conversation: Myself … Fan-Fare Why Hollywood is a Term of Disparagement Mr. Waugh Replies I See Nothing But Boredom … Everywhere Sinking, Shadowed and Sad—the Last Glory of Europe

2 Aesthete

In Defence of Cubism Preface to the Decorative Designs of Francis Crease A Call to the Orders The Philistine Age of English Decoration The Forerunner The Death of Painting

3 Man of Letters

Ronald Firbank A Neglected Masterpiece An Angelic Doctor Introduction to The Unbearable Bassington World Within World A Clean Sweep Urbane Enjoyment Personified: Sir Osbert Sitwell Here’s Richness Dropmore Press Makes Good Youth at the Helm and Pleasure at the Prow Literary Style in England and America Alfred Duggan The Max Behind the Mask Introduction to The Man of Property

4 Conservative

Spanish Civil War Present Discontents Palinurus in Never-Never Land Our Guest of Dishonour Awake My Soul! It is a Lord Anything Wrong with Priestley? Aspirations of a Mugwump Commentary for The Private Man

5 Catholic

Come Inside Marxism, the Opiate of the People Half in Love With Easeful Death Felix Culpa? The American Epoch in the Catholic Church St. Helena Empress Mgr. Knox at 4 a.m. Changes in the Church Edith Stein

Bibliographical Note Penguin Story Copyright Page Footnotes

Introduction

Page ix Page xi Page xiv

1 Myself …

page 5 page 14 page 23 page 41

5 Catholic

page 159 page 164