Greene & Waugh in Texas

By Robert Murray Davis
November 15, 2004
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Robert Murray Davis is co-editor of Brideshead Revisited for The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh (Oxford University Press). This essay is adapted from the introduction to that volume. Among Davis’s other works are Evelyn Waugh, Writer and Brideshead Revisited: The Past Redeemed.

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