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Black Mischiefby Evelyn WaughISBN 0141183985 (0-14-118398-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Mischief'Book summary:We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way. When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with the aid of Minister of Modernization, Basil Seal, Seth plans to introduce his people to the civilized ways of the west - but will it be as simple as that? [via]
Diaries of Evelyn Waughby Evelyn Waugh , Michael DavieISBN 014004647X (0-14-004647-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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A Handful of Dustby Evelyn WaughISBN 0140008225 (0-14-000822-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Handful of Dust'Book summary:"All over England people were waking up, queasy and despondent."
Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars.
Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. While he earnestly plays the lord of the manor in his ghastly Victorian Gothic pile, she sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. In the first half of the novel Waugh fearlessly anatomizes the lifestyles of the rich and shameless. Everyone moves through an endless cycle of parties and country-house weekends, being scrupulously polite in public and utterly horrid in private. Sex is something one does to relieve the boredom, and Brenda's affair provides a welcome subject for conversation:
It had been an autumn of very sparse and meagre romance; only the most obvious people had parted or come together, and Brenda was filling a want long felt by those whose simple, vicarious pleasure it was to discuss the subject in bed over the telephone.
Tony's indifference and Brenda's selfishness give their relationship a sort of equilibrium until tragedy forces them to face facts. The collapse of their relationship accelerates, and in the famous final section of the book Tony seeks solace in a foolhardy search for El Dorado, throwing himself on the mercy of a jungle only slightly more savage than the one he leaves behind in England. For all its biting wit, A Handful of Dust paints a bleak picture of the English upper classes, reaching beyond satire toward a very modern sense of despair. In Waugh's world, culture, breeding, and the trappings of civilization only provide more subtle means of destruction. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of A Handful of Dust:
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Helenaby Evelyn WaughISBN 0140182438 (0-14-018243-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Helena'Book summary: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. [via]
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Labelsby Evelyn WaughISBN 0140188371 (0-14-018837-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Letters of Evelyn Waughby Evelyn WaughISBN 0140045953 (0-14-004595-3)
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The Loved Oneby Evelyn WaughISBN 0003300927 (0-00-330092-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Loved One : An Anglo-American Tragedyby Evelyn WaughISBN 0141184248 (0-14-118424-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Officers and Gentlemenby Evelyn WaughISBN 0141184671 (0-14-118467-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Officers and Gentlemen'Book summary:Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete. [via]
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold : A Conversation Pieceby Evelyn WaughISBN 0141184507 (0-14-118450-7)
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Put Out More Flagsby Evelyn Waugh , Nigel SpiveyISBN 0141184019 (0-14-118401-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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When the Going Was Goodby Evelyn WaughISBN 014000825X (0-14-000825-X)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Work Suspended and Other Stories : Mr Loveday's Little Outing; Cruise; Period Piece; on Guard; an Englishman's Homby Evelyn WaughISBN 0141184515 (0-14-118451-5)
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Work Suspended, and Other Stories : Including 'Basil Seal Rides Again'by Evelyn WaughISBN 0140008241 (0-14-000824-1)
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Handful of Dustby Evelyn WaughISBN 0141183969 (0-14-118396-9)
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