Evelyn Waugh Libri
28 ottobre 1903 – 10 aprile 1966
Evelyn Waugh fu un maestro romanziere satirico le cui opere offrivano acuti commenti sui costumi sociali e sulle debolezze umane. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da arguzia tagliente, ironia e osservazione precisa, riflettendo spesso le sue esperienze e una visione critica del mondo. Waugh affrontò senza timore temi come la classe, la religione e la transitorietà della vita, guadagnandosi la reputazione di uno dei più importanti romanzieri britannici della sua epoca. Il suo stile distintivo e il suo sguardo inflessibile sulla vita moderna lo rendono un autore le cui opere continuano a risuonare con i lettori che cercano una letteratura profonda ma divertente.
The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings
- 650pagine
- 23 ore di lettura
These stories have all Waugh's characteristically brilliant, savage wit and reproduce his unmistakable world in miniature. They also constitute a vital supplement to the major novels, while being significant works in their own right
Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman is 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 his war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, he discovers not heroism, but humanity.
(Book Jacket Jacketed)In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth, four of the master’s most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume.Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischievous–inventing a politically loopy African state as a means of pulverizing politics at home. In Scoop , it is journalism’s turn to be drawn and quartered. The Loved One (which became a famously hilarious film) sends up the California mortuary business. And The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a burst of fictionalized autobiography in which Pinfold goes mad, more or less, on board an ocean liner.Here in four short–very different–novels are the mordant wit, inspired farce, snapping dialogue, and amazing characters that are the essence of everything Waugh ever wrote.
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
- 672pagine
- 24 ore di lettura
Evelyn Waugh was a loving Husband, a wise and affectionate father and the funniest English novelist of the century. This selection of letters does full justice to these splendid attribute's " Phillip Toynbee.
"Paul Pennyfeather, innocent victim of a drunken orgy, is expelled from Oxford College, which costs him a career in the church. He turns to teaching, frequently the last resort of failures, and at Llanabba Castle meets a friend, Beste-Chetwynde. But Margot, Beste-Chetwynde's mother, introduces him to the questionable delights of high society. Suddenly, and improbably, he is engaged to marry Margot. Just as they are about to say "I do, " Scotland Yard arrives and arrests Peter for his involvement in Margot's white slave-trading ring."--Amazon.
