In a novel by this author, just at the point when John Wesley is about to be saved from Native Americans by a cowgirl, a movie theater loses electricity.
In a novel by this author, just at the point when John Wesley is about to be saved from Native Americans by a cowgirl, a movie theater loses electricity. A woman surrounds herself with a coterie of angel wing-wearing girls who are given names such as Temperance and Chastity, in that novel by him. In a moving scene from a novel by this author, a man who had abandoned his faith to live with his mistress Cara in Venice makes the sign of the cross on his deathbed to return the Catholic fold. The protagonist of another novel by this author gets duped into buying gold ore by the German prospector's wife Katchen, and convinces his uncle to impersonate him at a banquet held by Lord (*) Copper, so that he can retire to a quiet life at Boot Magna . A character from this author's best-known novel breaks a tiny bone in his foot while playing croquet and, well into his adulthood, carries around the teddy bear Aloysius. In that novel by him, Lord Marchmain's son Sebastian Flyte first meets Charles Ryder at Oxford. For 10 points, name this author of Vile Bodies, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited.
In a novel by this author, just at the point when John Wesley is about to be saved from Native Americans by a cowgirl, a movie theater loses electricity.
Evelyn Waugh [or Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh; accept the hell out of He-Evelyn]