Evelyn Waugh
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Language
English
Description
"The Man Who Liked Dickens" is the tale of an upper-class Englishman who, in an effort to win back his unfaithful wife, joins an expedition to follow the Uraricoera River in South America. When things quickly go awry and he is rescued by an English-speaking man living among Shiriana Indians, he considers himself lucky... at first.
3) Scoop
Author
Language
English
Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a "thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny" satire of the journalism business (New York Times).
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness...
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness...
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; no. 156
Language
English
Formats
Description
An episodic story of the hilarious misadventures of Paul Pennyfeather, whose feckless odyssey begins when he loses his trousers.
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 252
Language
English
Description
A 1934 satirization of a segment of English society in which all the characters have money but few other qualities to recommend them.
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 172
Language
English
Description
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory. The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece — a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
By 1941, after serving in North Africa and Crete, Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, Crouch becomes finally and fully aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honor. Unconditional Surrender is the third novel in Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime...
15) Black mischief
Author
Publisher
Chapman & Hall
Pub. Date
1932, [1972]
Language
English
Description
Black Mischief, Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom. Profound hilarity ensues from the issuance of homemade currency, the staging of a Birth Control Gala, the rightful ruler's demise at his own rather long and tiring coronation ceremonies, and a good...
16) Helena
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1950]
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and "a superlatively well done book" (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor Constantine.
Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor Constantius. Leaving home for lands unknown, she spends her adulthood seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient...
Author
Pub. Date
1942.
Language
English
Description
What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall (1928) and Vile Bodies (1930) when the Second World War broke out? Put Out More Flags shows them adjusting to the changing social patterns of the times. Some of them play a courageous part; others, like Basil Seal, disclose their incorrigible habit of self-preservation in all possible circumstances.
