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A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
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Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem "The Waste Land", Evelyn Waugh's "A Handful of Dust" is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly ...Show more
Decline and Fall (HB) by Evelyn Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, now in a wonderful new hardback editionSent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools ...Show more
Helena by Evelyn Waugh
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Helena - the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain - is thrown into marriage with the man who will onday become the Roman Emperor Constantius. Forced to leave home for lands unknown, she spends her adulthood seeking truth in the faiths, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining anc ...Show more
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
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Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier c ...Show more
Scoop (HB) by Evelyn Waugh
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The best satire of journalism ever written, now in a wonderful new hardback editionLord 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 mome ...Show more
Unconditional Surrender by Evelyn Waugh
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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, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour.
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
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The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
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