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1964 book by Evelyn Waugh
A Little Learning
First edition cover
AuthorEvelyn Waugh
IllustratorEvelyn Waugh
LanguageEnglish
GenreSatire
PublisherChapman and Hall
Publication date1964
Publication placeUnited Kingdom

A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography (1964) is Evelyn Waugh's unfinished autobiography. It was published just two years before his death on Easter Sunday, 1966, and covers the period of his youth and education. The title is a well-known quotation from Pope's An Essay on Criticism, "A little learning is a dang'rous thing".

Footnotes

  1. "Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)". Universidad de Valencia:Literatura Inglesa. 1996-07-17. Retrieved 2007-06-15.
  2. Nigel Rees, The Quote ... Unquote Book of Love, Death and the Universe, 1980, ISBN 0-04-827022-9

References

  • Waugh, Evelyn (1964). A Little Learning (1st ed.). London: Chapman & Hall.
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