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Evelyn Waugh, a Rare card
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books, he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 185
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 370,000
Power 185 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust, the novel Brideshead Revisited, and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour.
- He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
- Waugh, the son of a publisher, was educated at Lancing College and then at Hertford College, Oxford.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Evelyn Waugh article was read about 370,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Evelyn Waugh
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Evelyn Waugh (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
