Evelyn Dowdeswell's Books

Examines Antarctica and Robert Scott's epic expedition to the South Pole.

This book commemorates the 100th anniversary of Shackleton's incredible journey aboard the ship Endurance. Relive the hardships faced by Shackleton and his men as their ship became stuck in the Antarctic ice. Learn about how Shackleton managed to lead his team to safety despite incredible odds. Discover the determination and courage that led to their eventual rescue from the frozen wilderness.

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Examines Antarctica and Robert Scott's epic expedition to the South Pole.

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.

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.

Evelyn Waugh was the last of the great letter-writers, and his witty, elegant correspondence to a wide circle of friends contains more than a touch of malice. In the 1920s Waugh wrote to a schoolfriend about his undergraduate escapades at Oxford and the Harold Acton and Henry Green of his unhappy jobs, his literary plans and the break-up of his first marriage. In the 1930s his boisterous letters recount his successes, social life and travels in South America. During the war, writing to his second wife, Laura Herbert, he revealed the strength of his love for her more vividly than has appeared elsewhere. He was inspired by Ann Fleming, Lady Diana Cooper and Nancy Mitford. Politics are rarely mentioned and he discusses writing only with someone he recognises as an equal, like Graham Greene. His deeply felt religious beliefs are expressed to John Betjeman. But Waugh's main concern is to amuse - and in this he is triumphantly successful.

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's writings for the first time. Waugh's only historical novel, Helena is the story of the mother of Emperor Constantine and her reputed discovery of the 'True Cross'.

The writers Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great friends, and their friendship gave rise to the 500 letters full of malicious jokes and social gossip, presented in this collection.

Book's by Evelyn Dowdeswell

Scott of the Antarctic

Scott of the Antarctic

Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton

Grains on MyPlate

Grains on MyPlate

Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton

Scott of the Antarctic

Scott of the Antarctic

The Loved One

The Loved One

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

The Letters of Evelyn Waugh

The Letters of Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Works Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Works Evelyn Waugh

The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

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