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David Slattery-Christy - Flyte or Fancy, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Flyte or Fancy

Evelyn Waugh Meets Harry Clifton on the Road to Brideshead

Av David Slattery-Christy

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Evelyn Waugh described the Cliftons of Lytham Hall as "all tearing mad" during visits in the 1930s. Join him and Harry Clifton on a journey of love, friendship, excess and liberation as they fight to be free of the sexual, dynastic and religious expectations the world demands of them.With a mix of fact and fiction, join us for this journey to a land that might-have-been as we meet the eccentric Harry Clifton and his family, and his adventures with friends Bertie Pemberton-Billing and Evelyn Waugh at Oxford in the 1920s, whilst an undergraduate at Christ Church. Discover their association with the Hypocrites Club and the notorious private drinking clubs that revelled in hedonism and sexual liberation. Harry and Evelyn were both eventually sent down from Oxford without degrees.Harry's irresponsible decisions, after the death of his father, and his wanton disregard for his family's heritage and reputation, and his obsession with the occult and mysticism, that led him to rely on the White Goddess and the Ghost of Hollywood to guide him with disastrous financial decisions. His darker side inspired by his favourite author and poet Edgar Alan Poe.From an equally disastrous marriage to purchasing Imperial Faberge Eggs, private suites at the Ritz Hotel and Claridge's, and the squandering of eye-watering amounts of money, a doomed foray into film producing with Brian Desmond Hurst, his journey continues through the 1930s as his reckless behaviour threatens hundreds of years of his family's reputation and heritage.On the eve of WW2 it all comes crashing down. Evelyn Waugh decides to separate from his friend but do the seeds of that friendship with Harry influence Waugh's character Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited? His most famous novel was finally published in 1945 much to the displeasure of Harry's widowed mother Violet Clifton. She never spoke to Waugh again.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-05-28
  • Mått: 152 x 228 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 496 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: Christyplays Publications
  • ISBN: 9781838136581
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David was born in Oxford, England, in 1959. He graduated from London's City University with a B.A. (Hons) in Journalism. In addition he has a P.G.C.E. from Lancaster University and an M.A. Arts (Dist) in Scriptwriting from the University of Central Lancashire. He continues his professions development by undertaking Post Graduate research and history courses at the University of Oxford.He has written several plays including Naturally Insane! The Life of Dan Leno, the celebrated Victorian Music Hall comedian, presented at the Criterion Theatre in London's West End and on national tour. He has also written theatre history books and novels, screenplays, and works as a theatre producer, director and film consultant. He was the Ivor Novello Consultant on the Oscar and BAFTA winning film Gosford Park, Directed by Robert Altman.

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"An insightful, fictionalised slice of literary history..." Amazon"As Brideshead Revisted turns 80, how author Evelyn Waugh took inspiration from the tragic aristocrat of Lytham Hall [Harry Clifton] in creating his own waywardly eccentric Sebastian Flyte in his iconic novel of upper-class foibles." The Sunday Express"The extraordinary life of Harry Clifton" Lancashire Life"Explore the tumultuous world of Harry Clifton, a figure whose life story reads like a novel, filled with grandeur, crisis, and heartbreak..." Explaining History Podcast"At the heart of his career is a twin devotion: to reviving forgotten voices and bridging the worlds of stage and scholarship. Slattery-Christy has cultivated a reputation as a careful researcher, an intuitive dramatist, and a steward of cultural memory. His work finds purchase where actor and archivist meet — where the ghosts of Edwardian stages and wartime letters might be reimagined for contemporary audiences. Whether through lyric biography or theatrical invention, he continues to explore the resonances of past lives in our own time."

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