Tatton winter biography definition
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I had read only one novel bygd Dostoevsky before embarking on this biography. (It wasCrime and Punishment, which I’m increasingly thinking I may have shortchanged by expecting it to be something very different to what it actually is.) Luckily, Christofi’s biography doesn’t so much demand prior familiarity with Dostoevsky’s oeuvre as it pushes the reader into a state of ever heightened curosity about the novels into which the man poured blood, sweat, tears, and years. In that sense, perhaps, being a novice in the field is the ideal position from which to read Dostoevsky in Love. Having been uncertain, after finishing C&P, about giving him another go, Christofi has convinced me that at least the three remaining major novels (The Idiot, Devils, The Brothers Karamazov)—as well as Notes from the House of the Dead—should be on my TBR list. That’s ganska an accomplishment for a non-specialist biographer.
Partly, it’s Christofi̵
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British Fascists
British fascist political party
Not to be confused with British Union of Fascists.
The British Fascists (originally called the British Fascisti) were the first political organisation in the United Kingdom to claim the label of fascism, formed in 1923. The group had lacked much ideological unity apart from anti-socialism for most of its existence, and was strongly associated with British conservatism. William Joyce, Neil Francis Hawkins, Maxwell Knight and Arnold Leese were amongst those to have passed through the movement as members and activists.
Structure and membership
[edit]The organisation was formed on 6 May 1923 by Rotha Lintorn-Orman in the aftermath of Benito Mussolini's March on Rome, and originally operated under the Italian-sounding name British Fascisti. Despite its name, the group had a poorly defined ideological basis at its beginning, being brought into being more by a fear of left-wing politics than a devotion to fascism. The ideal
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Evelyn Waugh
British writer and journalist (1903–1966)
Evelyn Waugh | |
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Waugh, circa 1940 | |
| Born | Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (1903-10-28)28 October 1903 West Hampstead, London, England |
| Died | 10 April 1966(1966-04-10) (aged 62) Combe Florey, Somerset, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Lancing College Hertford College, Oxford |
| Period | 1923–1964 |
| Genre | Novel, biography, short story, travelogue, autobiography, satire, humour |
| Spouses | Evelyn Gardner (m. 1928; ann. 1936)Laura Herbert (m. 1937) |
| Children | 7, including Auberon Waugh |
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisi