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Fathers and Sons : the Autobiography of a Family by Waugh, Alexander is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fathers and Sons : the Autobiography of a Family about?
If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has itand it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. The first of the literary Waughs was Arthur, who, when he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford in 1888, broke with the family tradition of medicine. He went on to become a distinguished publisher and an immensely influential book columnist. He fathered two sons, Alec and Evelyn, both of whom were to become novelists of note (and whom Arthur, somewhat uneasily, would himself publish); both of whom were to rebel in their own ways against his bedrock Victorianism; and one of whom, Evelyn, was to write a series of immortal novels that will be prized as long as elegance and lethal wit are admired. Evelyn begat, among seven others, Auberon Waugh, who would carry on in the family tradition of literary skill and eccentricity, becoming one of Englands most incorrigibly cantankerous and provocative newspaper columnists, loved and loathed in equal measure. And Auberon begat Alexander, yet another writer in the family, to whom it has fallen to tell this extraordinary tale of four generations of scribbling male Waughs. The result of his labors is Fathers and
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Waugh, Alexander
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385521505
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (182 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14