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Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Little Brown
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0316925462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780375404306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century. We find in them Waugh's almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the minutiae of human absurdity, as well as his worldly knowledge, his tenderness, his perceptive compassion, and his sophisticated, disabused, but nevertheless forceful idealism. The thirty-nine stories collected here include such small masterpieces as "Mr. Loveday's Little Outing" and "Scott-King's Modern Europe"; an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust; a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, the hero of Brideshead Revisited; and two linked stories, remnants of an abandoned novel that Waugh considered his best writing. This edition contains the original illustrations to "Love Among the Ruins," as well as more than thirty graphics produced by the author as an Oxford undergraduate in the 1920s.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2012-12-11
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0316216569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A "lavishly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) distillation of Waugh's genius--abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century's most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form. Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust; from a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of Brideshead Revisited, to a plot-packed morality tale that Waugh composed at a very tender age; from an epistolary lark in the voice of "a young lady of leisure" to a darkly comic tale of scandal in a remote (and imaginary) African outpost.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Published: 2023-06-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1667623796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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...”
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Published: 2023-06-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1667623761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Put Out More Flags is set during the first year of the war and follows the wartime activities of characters introduced in Waugh’s earlier satirical novels Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, and Black Mischief.
The dormant conflict is reflected in the activity of the novel’s main characters. Earnest would-be soldier Alistair Trumpington finds himself engaged in incomprehensible manoeuvres instead of real combat, while Waugh’s recurring ne’er-do-well Basil Seal, finds ample opportunity for amusing himself in the name of the war effort.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Published: 2023-06-01
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1667623680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The greatest English comic novelist of the twentieth century produced a considerable body of shorter fiction, characteristically brilliant and with savage wit.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher:
Published: 2022-05-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789394752337
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. These 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.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781400040766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Thirty years’ worth of Evelyn Waugh’s inimitable travel writings have been gathered together for the first time in one volume. Waugh’s accounts of his travels–spanning the years from 1929 to 1958–describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelist’s sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh pioneered the genre of modern travel writing in which the comic predicament of the traveler is as central as the world he encounters. He wrote with as sharp an eye for folly as for foliage, and a delight in the absurd, not least where his own comfort and dignity are concerned. From his fresh take on the well-traveled and hence already “fully labeled” Mediterranean region in Labels, to a close-up view of Haile Selassie’s coronation in Remote People, from a comically miserable stint in British Guiana.
