Picturesque Prison

Know about the book -

Picturesque Prison is written by Jeffrey Heath and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773504079 (ISBN 10) and 9780773504073 (ISBN 13).

This study of the life and works of Evelyn Waugh traces the novelist's pursuit of his vocation and his long retreat from a world which he came to regard as a spiritual dungeon. Jeffrey Heath explores the paradoxical elements in Waugh's career: his quest for a refuge itself proved to be a prison and his devotion to the Augustan graces was accompanied by a lasting attraction to a Dionysiac age without restratint. The deep cleft in Waugh's nature imbued his art with the characteristic quirky complexity which has fascinated many readers, but it left him a choleric and melancholy man who never fully accepted his calling as a writer.