Tony Last embarks on a trip to South America to escape his wife Brenda in another of his works.
He attempted to commit suicide at age 22 by swimming out to sea but turned back after being stung by a jellyfish. He used his experiences teaching at a Welsh private school to write his first novel, which was followed Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen and The End of the Battle, the trilogy about Guy Crouchback called Sword of Honour. Tony Last embarks on a trip to South America to escape his wife Brenda in another of his works. For 10 points, name this author of Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust who wrote of Charles Ryder's relationship with the Marchmain family in Brideshead Revisited.
He attempted to commit suicide at age 22 by swimming out to sea but turned back after being stung by a jellyfish.
Evelyn Arthur St. John {Waugh}