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Evelyn Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 13.05 € (+2.70 €)A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondentnnIn 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent rubbing shoulders with less-than-honest officials, Arab spies, pyjama-wearing radicals and disgruntled journalists. Witty, lucid and penetrating, Evelyn Waugh captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.
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Evelyn Waugh Scoop
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 13.78 € (+2.70 €)One of Evelyn Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. nnLord 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, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. But for, pale, ineffectual William Boot, editor of the Daily Beast's 'nature notes' column, being mistaken for a competent journalist may prove to be a fatal error...nnIf you enjoyed Scoop, you might like Waugh's Decline and Fall, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.nn'Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch'nChristopher Hitchens
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Evelyn Waugh The Loved One
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 11.87 € (+2.70 €)Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood, published in Penguin Modern Classics.nnThe 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. Following the death of a friend, poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into 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. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art...nnA dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation and death cost a very great deal.nnEvelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited. Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender, followed in 1955 and 1961.nnIf you enjoyed The Loved One, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.nn'The master of black comedy'nSunday Timesnn'One of the funniest and most significant books of the century'nAlice Thomas Ellis, Daily Telegraph
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Evelyn Waugh Scoop
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 17.80 € (+2.70 €)Evelyn Waugh's brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Alexander WaughnnLord 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, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. But for, pale, ineffectual William Boot, editor of the Daily Beast's 'nature notes' column, being mistaken for a competent journalist may prove to be a fatal error...nnIf you enjoyed Scoop, you might like Waugh's Decline and Fall, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.nn'Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch'nChristopher Hitchens
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Waugh in Abyssinia
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David Waugh The New Wider World
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 42.16 €New Wider World supports the GCSE, Cambridge IGCSE and Edexcel International GCSE specifications, and has been reviewed and recommended by University of Cambridge International Examinations.
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Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 11.87 € (+2.70 €)Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life.nnIn 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 inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade - whether promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires.nnIf you enjoyed Vile Bodies, you might like Waugh's A Handful of Dust, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.nn'The high point of the experimental, original Waugh'nMalcolm Bradbury, Sunday Timesnn'This brilliantly funny, anxious and resonant novel ... the difficult edgy guide to the turn of the decade'nRichard Jacobsnn'It's Britain's Great Gatsby'nStephen Fry, director of Vile Bodies film adaptation Bright Young Things
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Evelyn Waugh When the Going Was Good
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 13.05 € (+2.70 €)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.
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Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 17.80 € (+2.70 €)The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the hedonistic fulfilment of their desires.nnEvelyn Waugh's acidly funny and experimental satire shows a new generation emerging in the years after the First World War, revealing the darkness and vulnerability beneath the glittering surface of the high life.
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Diana Waugh I Was Thinking
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 16.82 € (+2.70 €)I WAS THINKING is a workbook that helps people better communicate with their loved ones suffering with cognitive loss. It is a guide that can lead to happy, calm conversations. The information discussed in this book may be new and different from what you have heard before. However, it truly has the potential of reconnecting you with a loved one you may have felt was lost to you because of cognitive loss.
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Evelyn Waugh;Nancy Mitford The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 17.80 € (+2.70 €)Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters over twenty-two years. Dissecting their friends, criticizing each other's books and concealing their true feelings beneath a barrage of hilarious and knowing repartee, they found it far easier to conduct a friendship on paper than in person. This correspondence provides a colourful glimpse into the literary and social circles of London and Paris, during the Second World War and for twenty years after.
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Evelyn Waugh Sword of Honour
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 22.55 € (+2.70 €)Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Martin StannardnnWaugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, he discovers not heroism, but humanity. Sword of Honour combines three volumes: Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender, which were originally published separately. Extensively revised by Waugh, they were published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read.nn'Marvellous ... one of the masterpieces of the century'nJohn Banville, Irish Times
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Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 11.87 € (+2.70 €)His first, most perfect novel ... ruthlessly comic John Mortimer, GuardiannnSent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather 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 in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul.
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Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 17.80 € (+2.70 €)Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Barbara CookennSent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather 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 in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul.nn'His first, most perfect novel ... ruthlessly comic' John Mortimer, Guardian
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Evelyn Waugh Sword of Honour
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 17.80 € (+2.70 €)Fictionalising his experience of service during the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour is the complete one-volume edition of his masterful trilogy, edited with an introduction by Angus Calder in Penguin Modern Classics.nnWaugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, he discovers not heroism, but humanity. Sword of Honour combines three volumes: Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender, which were originally published separately. Extensively revised by Waugh, they were published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read.nnEvelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, serving in the Middle East and in Yugoslavia. In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited. Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender, followed in 1955 and 1961.nnIf you enjoyed Sword of Honour, you might like Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.nn'Marvellous ... one of the masterpieces of the century'nJohn Banville, Irish Times
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Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 17.80 € (+2.70 €)Evelyn Waugh's celebrated tale of decadence and social disintegration, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Philip EadennAfter seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars. This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce, and a symbol of the disintegration of society. nnIf you enjouyed A Handful of Dust, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.nn'One of the twentieth century's most chilling and bitter novels; and one of its best'nNicholas Lezard, Guardiannn'One of the most distinguished novels of the century'nFrank Kermodenn'This is a masterpiece of stylish satire, and is funny, too ... a marvellous book'nJohn Banville, Irish Times
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Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 11.87 € (+2.70 €)Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis. nnAfter seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars. This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce, and a symbol of the disintegration of society. nnIf you enjouyed A Handful of Dust, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.nn'One of the twentieth century's most chilling and bitter novels; and one of its best'nNicholas Lezard, Guardiannn'One of the most distinguished novels of the century'nFrank Kermodenn'This is a masterpiece of stylish satire, and is funny, too ... a marvellous book'nJohn Banville, Irish Times
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Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 11.35 € (+2.70 €)It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.nnAfter seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars. nnThe Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
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Evelyn Waugh Etichette
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 17.10 € (+2.70 €)Non sapevo in realtà dove stavo andando; se me lo chiedevano, dicevo in Russia
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Evelyn Waugh In Abissinia
Venditore: Ibs.it Prezzo: 17.10 € (+2.70 €)Questo libro avrebbe dovuto chiamarsi "War in Abyssinia". Buon titolo: asciutto, fattuale, esotico. Dell'Abissinia nel 1935 nessuno sapeva nulla, anche se il paese era l'unico stato africano cooptato nella Lega delle Nazioni e il suo giovane despota era un pupillo dei media - Uomo dell'Anno per "Time". Ma adesso di quell'immensa piantagione di caffè stava per impadronirsi l'ultima arrivata nel circolo delle potenze coloniali: sì, la Grande Proletaria di Mussolini si preparava a invadere, e per ciò stesso a scatenare, nei timori di molte cancellerie, un conflitto globale. Ottima ragione per spedire sul posto un esercito di inviati - pericoloso quanto e più di quelli in armi, però, specie se forzato all'inazione. I centocinquanta embedded al seguito dell'esercito italiano erano infatti costretti a passare le veline dello Stato Maggiore, o riferire voci incontrollabili (i duemila morti nel bombardamento d'Adua, che a villaggio raggiunto si sarebbero rivelati sei). Quanto a quelli aggregati agli etiopi, se ne occupava un irreprensibile addetto stampa indigeno, che fin dal primo giorno aveva promesso notizie di due soli tipi: false, o tendenziose. Dopo qualche settimana gli inviati erano accampati in pianta stabile ai tavolini da bridge. Tutti, tranne il corrispondente dello "Evening Standard", Evelyn Waugh. Povero Waugh, mette a segno addirittura uno scoop, e ne è talmente geloso da scrivere il pezzo in latino, certo che i colleghi non lo mastichino. Così in effetti è...
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