The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Historical eventJuly 191957

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a largely autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh, was published.

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Friday, July 19 195769 years ago
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20th century · 1950s
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in July 1957. It is Waugh's penultimate full-length work of fiction, which the author called his "mad book"—a largely autobiographical account of a period of hallucinations caused by bromide intoxication that he experienced in the early months of 1954, recounted through his protagonist Gilbert Pinfold.

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July 19 1957 — 69 years ago, on a Friday.

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