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The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

By: Evelyn Waugh

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The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

By: Evelyn Waugh

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.

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658

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Hachette Digital, Inc.

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ISBN 10

0316925462

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9780316925464

The Letters of Evelyn Waugh

By: Evelyn Waugh

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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.

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761

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Phoenix

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ISBN 10

0753827379

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9780753827376

The Loved One

By: Evelyn Waugh

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The Loved One

By: Evelyn Waugh

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.

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111

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Hachette+ORM

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ISBN 10

0316216488

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9780316216487

The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

By: Charlotte Mosley

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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

By: Charlotte Mosley

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.

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531

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0340638052

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9780340638057

Put Out More Flags

By: Evelyn Waugh

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Put Out More Flags

By: Evelyn Waugh

Put Out More Flags features the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, and shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the 1940s.

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261

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Penguin UK

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ISBN 10

0141184019

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9780141184012

Brideshead Revisited

By: Evelyn Waugh

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Brideshead Revisited

By: Evelyn Waugh

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory. The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece -- a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations and reveals him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. "A genuine literary masterpiece." --Time "Heartbreakingly beautiful...The twentieth century's finest English novel." --Los Angeles Times

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432

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Back Bay Books

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ISBN 10

0316242101

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9780316242103

The Complete Works Evelyn Waugh

Helena

By: Evelyn Waugh

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Helena

By: Evelyn Waugh

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'.

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384

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Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh

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ISBN 10

019968524X

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9780199685240

Remote People

By: Evelyn Waugh

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Remote People

By: Evelyn Waugh

In 1930 Evelyn Waugh went out to Abyssinia as special correspondent for The Times to cover the coronation of the Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of the Kings of Ethiopia.

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183

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014018838X

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9780140188387

BLACK MISCHIEF

By: Evelyn Waugh

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BLACK MISCHIEF

By: Evelyn Waugh

Black Mischief was Evelyn Waugh’s third novel, published in 1932. The novel chronicles the efforts of the English-educated Emperor Seth, assisted by a fellow Oxford graduate, Basil Seal, to modernize his Empire, the fictional African island of Azania, located in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. 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.

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301

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Alien Ebooks

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ISBN 10

1667623672

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9781667623672

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

By: Evelyn Waugh

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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

By: Evelyn Waugh

The very model of the modern paranoid novel" (New York Times) and an ambitious work of semi-autobiographical fiction from one of England's greatest novelists. Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to defeat insomnia he has been imbibing an unappetizing cocktail of bromide, chloral, and creme de menthe. He books a passage on the SS Caliban and, as it cruises towards Ceylon, rapidly slips into madness. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, and loud revival meetings. He is convinced that an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship . . . until instead of just sounds he hears voices. And not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frighteningly intimate way, about him!

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116

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Hachette+ORM

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0316216674

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9780316216678

Robbery Under Law (12)

By: Evelyn Waugh

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Robbery Under Law (12)

By: Evelyn Waugh

In Robbery Under Law, subtitled 'The Mexican Object Lesson', Waugh presents a profoundly unpeaceful Mexican situation as a cautionary tale in which a once great civilisation - greater than the United States at the turn of the twentieth century - has succumbed, within the space of a single generation, to barbarism.

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229

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Penguin UK

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0718197755

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9780718197759

Essays, Articles, and Reviews, 1922-1934

By: Evelyn Waugh

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Essays, Articles, and Reviews, 1922-1934

By: Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh offers the first scholarly edition of Waugh's work, bringing together all of his extant writings and graphic art: novels, biographies, travel writing, short fiction, essays, articles, reportage, reviews, poems, juvenilia, parerga, drawings, and designs. No other edition of a British novelist has been undertaken on this scale. Only 15% of Waugh's letters have previously been published. Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson, is editing a twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence for the series, intercalating over 10,000 letters with the complete, unexpurgated diaries. All volumes will be beautifully produced, and have comprehensive introductions and detailed annotation. Fiction and non-fiction volumes will also contain a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants. The Complete Works will revolutionize Waugh studies, and offer new insights for twentieth-century literary and cultural studies generally. Waughs works are placed in their rich literary and historical context, enabling readers to appreciate for the first time the range and complexity of his thinking and artistic practice, and linking this to the work of his contemporaries in Britain, America and Europe. This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence. This first volume of Evelyn Waugh's Articles, Essays, and Reviews contains every traceable piece of journalism that research could uncover written by Waugh between January 1922, when he first went up to Oxford, and December 1934, when he had recently returned from British Guiana and was enjoying the runaway success of A Handful of Dust. Long interred in fashion magazines, popular newspapers, sober journals, undergraduate reviews, and BBC archives, 110 of the 170 pieces in the volume have never before been reprinted. Several typescripts of articles and reviews are published here for the first time, as are a larger number of unsigned pieces never before identified as Waugh's. Original texts, so easily distorted in the production process, have been established as far as possible using manuscript and other controls. The origins of the works are explored, and annotations to each piece seek to assist the modern reader. The volume embraces university journalism; essays from Waugh's years of drift after Oxford; forcefully emphatic articles and contrasting sophisticated reviews written for the metropolitan press from 1928 to 1930 (the most active and enterprising years of Waugh's career); reports for three newspapers of a coronation in Abyssinia and essays for The Times on the condition of Ethiopia and on British policy in Arabia. Finally, in early 1934 Waugh travelled for three months in remote British Guiana, resulting in nine travel articles and A Handful of Dust, acclaimed as one of the most distinguished novels of the century. Waugh was 19 when his first Oxford review appeared, 31 when the Spectator printed his last review of 1934. This is a young writer's book, and the always lucid articles and reviews it presents read as fresh and lively, as challenging and opinionated, as the day they first appeared.

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592

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199683441

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9780199683444

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The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

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The Loved One

The Loved One

The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

Put Out More Flags

Put Out More Flags

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited

The Complete Works Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Works Evelyn Waugh

Remote People

Remote People

BLACK MISCHIEF

BLACK MISCHIEF

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Robbery Under Law (12)

Robbery Under Law (12)

Essays, Articles, and Reviews, 1922-1934

Essays, Articles, and Reviews, 1922-1934

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