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The Same Man.(The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War )(Brief article)(Book review)

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George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh met on only one occasion, in 1949; neither man kept a record of what happened, and perhaps the only certain outcome of the meeting is the existence of this idiosyncratic book. Offering an appreciation of two writers typically seen as opposites, Lebedoff strives for neither biographical nor critical comprehensiveness. He argues that both were essentially anti-modernist--Waugh a nostalgic moralist and Orwell a ...

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