Helena

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Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780141193502

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Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross, and built churches at Bethlehem and Olivet. Her life coincided with one of the great turning-points of history- the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire. The enormous conflicting forces of the age, and the corruption, treachery, and madness of Imperial Rome combine to give Evelyn Waugh the theme for one of his most arresting and memorable novels.

Evelyn Waugh’s Satire

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Author: Naomi Milthorpe

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1611478758

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Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) is one of the twentieth century’s great prose stylists and the author of a suite of devastating satires on modern English life, from his first unforgettably funny novel Decline and Fall, to his last work of fiction, “Basil Seal Rides Again.” Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts renews scholarly debates central to Waugh’s work: the forms of his satire, his attitudes towards modernity and modernism, his place in the literary culture of the interwar period, and his pugnacious (mis)reading of literary and other texts. This study offers new exegetical accounts of the forms and figures of Waugh’s satire, linking original readings of Waugh’s texts to the literary-historical contexts that informed them. Posing fresh readings of familiar works and affording attention to more neglected texts, Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts offers readers and scholars a timely opportunity to return to the rich, dark art of this master of prose satire.

The Loved One

The Loved One PDF

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 0316216488

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"A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide. Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday--and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage satire depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.

VILE BODIES

VILE BODIES PDF

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Alien Ebooks

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1667623796

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Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”

Evelyn Waugh's Satire

Evelyn Waugh's Satire PDF

Author: Naomi Milthorpe

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781611478747

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Waugh is a perennial subject for literary scholars; most studies published in the past thirty years take a strongly biographical approach, using Waugh's life and faith as lenses through which to critique the fiction. Evelyn Waugh's Satire takes a different approach: using frameworks of modernist studies, intertextuality, satire theory, and the contexts of the interwar period, Milthorpe renews debates about the targets and tactics of Waugh's satire.

A Handful of Dust

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Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher:

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Satire over engelsk overklasseliv i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet med Tony i centrum som en ung gentleman, der må se alle sine illusioner om kærlighed, ægteskab, slægt og historie briste

Black Mischief

Black Mischief PDF

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher:

Published: 1946

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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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 deal more mischief.

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh PDF

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Little Brown

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 0316925462

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Collected for the first time in a single volume: all of the short fiction by one of the 20th century's wittiest and most trenchant observers of the human comedy.

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