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Hellfire : Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club by David Fleming (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHi-Story Press The Limited, T.H.E.

ISBN-10180399651X

ISBN-139781803996516

eBay Product ID (ePID)13065556653

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

Publication NameHellfire : Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club

LanguageEnglish

SubjectReference, General, Literary, Europe / Great Britain / General

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

AuthorDavid Fleming

Subject AreaEducation, Biography & Autobiography, History

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.7 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal378.19830942574

SynopsisThe first book to tell the remarkable story of Oxford University's hedonistic Hypocrites Club and its (in)famous members, Late one evening in March 1924, a tipsy young nun was seen trying to slip into Balliol, an all-male Oxford college, just as the gates were about to close for the night. The nun - subsequently unmasked as the son of the college bursar - was returning after a fancy-dress party at a notorious Oxford social club, one known to the university proctors for its hedonistic ways, heavy drinking and wayward behaviour. This was the final straw; the club was shut down. Described by one habitué as 'a kind of early twentieth-century Hell Fire Club', the Hypocrites Club counted some of the brightest of the future 'Bright Young People' among its members. The one-time secretary was Evelyn Waugh, who used ten of his fellow Hypocrites as inspiration for his fictional characters - seven of them in Brideshead Revisited alone. The Hypocrites didn't just lend themselves to Waugh's fiction. Many went on to prominence themselves, including Anthony Powell, Robert Byron, Henry Green, Claud Cockburn and Tom Driberg. Hellfire is the first full-length portrait of this scandalous club and its famous members, who continued to be thorns in the Establishment's side - throughout war and austerity - for the next five decades.

LC Classification NumberLF529.5.H9F4 2024