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    Martin Stannard

    Martin Stannard is a professor of modern English literature at the University of Leicester, where he has taught since 1979. He was previously Leverhulme Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Muriel Spark: The Biography, Evelyn Waugh, The Early Years: 1903–1939 and Evelyn Waugh, The Later Years: 1939–1966, and editor of Evelyn Waugh, The Critical Heritage. His many articles and reviews have appeared in Modern Language Review, Essays in Criticism, the New York Times Book Review, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and Novel, among other publications.

    Martin Stannard

    Martin Stannard is a professor of modern English literature at the University of Leicester, where he has taught since 1979. He was previously Leverhulme Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Muriel Spark: The Biography, Evelyn Waugh, The Early Years: 1903–1939 and Evelyn Waugh, The Later Years: 1939–1966, and editor of Evelyn Waugh, The Critical Heritage. His many articles and reviews have appeared in Modern Language Review, Essays in Criticism, the New York Times Book Review, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and Novel, among other publications.

    Books by Martin Stannard

    • Muriel Spark: The Biography

      Martin Stannard

      Hardback, 2010

      The compelling first biography of a twentieth-century literary enigma.

    • Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939

      Martin Stannard

      1, Paperback, 1990

      “A literary biography of the same caliber as Richad Ellmann’s James Joyce, James Lees-Milne’s Harold Nicolson, Hilary Spurling’s Ivy Compton-Burnett and Rupert Hart-Davis’ Hugh Walpole.” —Michael...

    • Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939-1966

      Martin Stannard

      2, Paperback, 1994

      “Stannard has been the first commentator to make me not only understand but deeply sympathize with the desperate ambivalence in this great novelist between his passionate Christian concern with...

    • The Good Soldier: A Norton Critical Edition

      Ford Madox Ford, Martin Stannard

      Second Edition, Paperback, 2012

      Heralded by Graham Greene as “one of the finest novels of our century,” Ford Madox Ford’s 1915 modernist masterpiece of passion and deceit is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical...

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