A Little Learning is the first volume of an autobiography Evelyn Waugh was never to continue. In it, he subjects his life from infancy through his early twenties to a cheerily unsparing scutiny. Here are Waugh's accounts of his real-life exploits at Oxford in the 1920s, familiar to all who have read Brideshead Revisited, and of his stint as a schoolmaster in North Wales, memorably recreated in Decline and Fall.