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The book was adapted in 1965 by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood into a film of the same title, which features, while adding to the novel's plot with new characters and scenes, many in-joke cameos and familiar California filming locations such as the Greystone Mansion. Isherwood himself can be glimpsed within the film as one of 'Uncle ...
The Loved One is a 1965 black-and-white black comedy film directed by British filmmaker Tony Richardson.A satirical look at the funeral business in Los Angeles, it is based on Evelyn Waugh's 1948 short novel The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, though the screenplay by noted American satirical novelist Terry Southern and British author Christopher Isherwood also incorporates elements from ...
The Loved Ones (American band), a Philadelphia rock band The Loved Ones, a 2005 EP by the American band; Loved Ones, a 1996 album by Ellis Marsalis and Branford Marsalis "The Loved Ones", a 1982 song by Elvis Costello and the Attractions from Imperial Bedroom "Loved Ones", a 2003 song by Starflyer 59 from Old
The character of Guru Brahmin in the 1948 satirical novel The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh was inspired by Miss Lonelyhearts, [8] and the character also appears in the 1965 film adaptation. Miss Lonelyhearts is discussed by two of the characters of Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel The Man in the High Castle, Paul Kasoura and Robert Childan. [9]
The Sword of Honour is a trilogy of novels by Evelyn Waugh which loosely parallel Waugh's experiences during the Second World War.Published by Chapman & Hall from 1952 to 1961, the novels are: Men at Arms (1952); Officers and Gentlemen (1955); and Unconditional Surrender (1961), marketed as The End of the Battle in the United States and Canada.
(Waugh may have based the character of Ludovic on one or two real people: the soldier of fortune and novelist John Lodwick, [1] and/or the future press tycoon and politician Robert Maxwell. [citation needed]) In the final stages of the evacuation, they escape with a few others in a small boat, but run out of fuel. The sapper Captain in command ...
The book shifts in tone from light-hearted romp to bleak desolation (Waugh himself later attributed it to the breakdown of his first marriage halfway through the book's composition). [6] Some have defended the novel's downbeat ending as a poetically just reversal of the conventions of comic romance.
Jonathan Raban described the novel as being "as tightly constructed – point and counterpoint – as a baroque fugue", [1] while L. E. Sissman argues that Put Out More Flags represents a turning point in Waugh's writing career: "Waugh somehow fuses the savage, deadly comedy of his earlier books with the ominous seriousness of his later ones."