Abstract

Bibliographers of Evelyn Waugh have always known that the textual history of his novels is quite complex,' but as more information becomes available, it is obvious that matters are far more complicated than anyone had suspected. There are a number of openly admitted revised editions published by Chapman and Hall since 1960; there are a number of editions which contain unpublicized changes in the text; and in some cases, there are periodical versions of chapters or of entire novels that not only have the kind of changes necessary to adapt them to story or serial format but also have positive variants which indicate that they represent a separate stage in the composition of the text. Particularly interesting to the bibliographer and to the critic of Waugh are the two serials of Handful of Dust, retitled A Flat in London for Harper's Bazaar, and of Brideshead Revisited in Town

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