{"product_id":"9781803996516-hellfire-evelyn-waugh-and-the-hypocrites-club","title":"Hellfire","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first book to tell the remarkable story of Oxford University's hedonistic Hypocrites Club and its (in)famous members\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘This is a pacey and colourful read … elegantly written.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e – Daisy Dunn, \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘The whole book reads rather like a Powell novel, with unexpected meetings and reversals … it is a constant pleasure.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e – Mark Amory, \u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘At a rollicking pace, it follows the post-Oxford careers of all the main Hypocrites … Waugh addicts will wish to add it to their shelves.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e – A.N. Wilson, \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e top ten history book of 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescribed 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e The one-time secretary was Evelyn Waugh, who used ten of his fellow Hypocrites as inspiration for his fictional characters – seven of them in \u003cem\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cem\u003eHellfire\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41601040220257,"sku":"9781803996516","price":14.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30143589.jpg?v=1726732548","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781803996516-hellfire-evelyn-waugh-and-the-hypocrites-club","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}