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==Major Works==

==Major Works==

Waugh first achieved fame with ''Decline and Fall'', an uproarious satire set among London's snobbish elite, before confirming his status with the similarly witty ''Vile Bodies'' and  ''Scoop''. The novels represented upper- and middle-class England as solipsistic, trivial and heartless, but a mournful quality was detectable in the fine prose. At the end of the Second World War, in ''Brideshead Revisited'', Waugh confirmed his sincere conversion to Catholicism and his growing political conservatism with a tale set among a doomed aristocratic family. Made into an iconic ITV television series in 1981, the book sought, in his own words, to demonstrate the application of "divine grace". Waugh later came to see Brideshead as somewhat over-florid in style and the later 'Sword of Honour'' trilogy, a story of the war, was a considerably drier and less lyrical.

Waugh first achieved fame with ''Decline and Fall'', an uproarious satire set among London's snobbish elite, before confirming his status with the similarly witty ''Vile Bodies'' and  ''Scoop''. The novels represented upper- and middle-class England as solipsistic, trivial and heartless, but a mournful quality was detectable in the fine prose. At the end of the Second World War, in ''Brideshead Revisited'', Waugh confirmed his sincere conversion to Catholicism and his growing political conservatism with a tale set among a doomed aristocratic family. Made into an iconic ITV television series in 1981, the book sought, in his own words, to demonstrate the application of "divine grace". Waugh later came to see Brideshead as somewhat over-florid in style and the later ''Sword of Honour'' trilogy, a story of the war, was a considerably drier and less lyrical piece of work.

==Later Years==

==Later Years==

In the later years of his life, Waugh became ever more conservative. He famously complained that, despite his repeatedly  having voted for the Conservative Party, "they have never put the clock back a single second". Evelyn Waugh died at his home in Combe Florey, Somerset in 1966.

In the later years of his life, Waugh became ever more conservative. He famously complained that, despite his repeatedly  having voted for the Conservative Party, "they have never put the clock back a single second". Evelyn Waugh died at his home in Combe Florey, Somerset in 1966.