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Book Synopsis The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1998 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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.
Book Synopsis The Complete Stories by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book The Complete Stories written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book VILE BODIES written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...”
Download or read book Black Mischief written by Evelyn Waugh and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Helena written by Evelyn Waugh and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Evelyn Waugh written by Philip Eade and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES Fifty years after Evelyn Waugh’s death, here is a completely fresh view of one of the most gifted -- and fascinating -- writers of our time, the enigmatic author of Brideshead Revisited. Graham Greene hailed Waugh as ‘the greatest novelist of my generation’, and in recent years his reputation has only grown. Now Philip Eade has delivered an authoritative and hugely entertaining biography that is full of new material, much of it sensational. Eade builds upon the existing Waugh lore with access to a remarkable array of unpublished sources provided by Waugh’s grandson, including passionate love letters to Baby Jungman – the Holy Grail of Waugh research - a revealing memoir by Waugh’s first wife Evelyn Gardner (“Shevelyn”), and an equally significant autobiography by Waugh’s commanding officer in World War II. Eade’s gripping narrative illuminates Waugh’s strained relationship with his sentimental father and blatantly favoured elder brother; his love affairs with male classmates at Oxford and female bright young things thereafter; his disastrous first marriage and subsequent conversion to Roman Catholicism; his insane wartime bravery; his drug-induced madness; his singular approach to marriage and fatherhood; his complex relationship with the aristocracy; the astonishing power of his wit; and the love, fear, and loathing that he variously inspired in others. One of Eade’s aims is ‘to re-examine some of the distortions and misconceptions that have come to surround this famously complex and much mythologized character’.‘This might look like code for a plan to whitewash the overly blackwashed Waugh,’ comments veteran Waugh scholar Professor Donat Gallagher; ‘but readers fixated on atrocities will not be disappointed . . . I have been researching and writing about Waugh since 1963 and Eade time and again surprised and delighted me.’ Waugh was famously difficult and Eade brilliantly captures the myriad facets of his character even as he casts new light on the novels that have dazzled generations of readers.
Book Synopsis The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1998 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest English comic novelist of the twentieth century produced a considerable body of shorter fiction, characteristically brilliant and with savage wit.
Book Synopsis When the Going Was Good by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book When the Going Was Good written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in 1930; his travels in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya and the Congo, coping with unbearable heat and plagued by mosquitoes; a journey to Guyana and Brazil; and his return to Addis Ababa in 1935 to report on the war between Abyssinia and Italy. Waugh's adventures on his travels gave him the ideas for such classic novels as Scoop and Black Mischief.
Book Synopsis SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott-King's Modern Europe is a satire on post-1945 totalitarianism. The story sets out in particular Waugh’s attitudes towards communism in the Balkans and is plainly also an attack on the drabness of the continent following the Second World War.
Book Synopsis ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful, middle-aged novelist with a case of 'bad nerves,' Gilbert Pinfold embarks on a recuperative trip to Ceylon. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, loud revival meetings. He can only infer that somewhere concealed in his room an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship. And then, instead of just sounds, he hears voices. But they are not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frightening intimate way, about him!
Download or read book Waugh Abroad written by Evelyn Waugh and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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.
Download or read book The Loved One written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Book Synopsis The Complete Short Stories by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels. 'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; 'Cruise' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naïve young woman as she travels with her family; 'A House of Gentlefolks' observes a group of elderly eccentric aristocrats and their young heir; and in 'The Sympathetic Passenger' a radio-loathing retiree picks up exactly the wrong hitchhiker. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.
Book Synopsis The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh written by Evelyn Waugh and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unconditional Surrender by : Evelyn Waugh
Download or read book Unconditional Surrender written by Evelyn Waugh and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Unconditional Surrender' is a satire on the English class system. The writer takes a dig at the way the ruling class and their sense of entitlement, even when the country is in a global conflict, can plan through the bureaucracy to make their way into the far less dangerous and more comfortable theatres of war.
