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Two irascible Englishmen: Mr. Waugh and Mr. Orwell.(George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh)

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From: Modern Age
Date: 20050322
Author:Rossi, John P.

2003 MARKED THE CENTENARY of two of the most influential English authors of the middle years of the twentieth century: Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell (1903-1950), and Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966). Although the themes and topics they treated now seem dated (the fast, but dim social set of the late 1920s and early 1930s for Waugh; the travails of the working classes during the great slump for Orwell), both authors continue to be widely read today. Orwell remains popular for Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), and to a lesser extent for his essays; Waugh is ...

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