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A Handful of Dust: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dustis a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's Gothic pile to conduct an affair with shallow socialite John Beaver of the Belgravia set. A Handful of Dustremains one of the fi ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age be ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
(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
Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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" s ...Show more
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh; David Bradshaw (Editor, Foreword by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfather 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, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always ...Show more
Rossetti: His Life and Works by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentiethEvelyn Waugh's first book, Rossetti, is an intimate account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's tragic and mysterious life- the story behind some of the greatest poetry and painting of the ninet ...Show more
Scoop: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Lord 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 moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch ...Show more
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: modern classics
An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. But to his horror the hallucinations increase and life on board becomes very embarrassing.
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...Show more
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