Will this Do?: The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh : an AutobiographyBorn into the vastness of Pixton Park in Somerset, Auberon Waugh was drawn early into class warfare; he pretended he had seen evacuees and children of servants eat rat poison so they would all have their stomach pumped. His father despised him. Bron responded in kind, finding his father hypocritical and pretentious. |
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Chapter One Pixton 19391945 | 13 |
Chapter Two Piers Court 19451956 | 35 |
Chapter Three Cranmore Hall 19461952 | 58 |
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