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.
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.
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.
A "lavishly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) distillation of Waugh's genius--abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century's most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form. Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust; from a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of Brideshead Revisited, to a plot-packed morality tale that Waugh composed at a very tender age; from an epistolary lark in the voice of "a young lady of leisure" to a darkly comic tale of scandal in a remote (and imaginary) African outpost.
Ronald Knox - priest, classicist, prolific writer and one of the outstanding men of letters of his time. The renowned Oxford chaplain was a friend of figures such as G K Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, and was known for his caustic wit and spiritual wisdom. This title presents his portrait.
The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, undertook a pilgrimage to Palestine, discovered fragments of the true Cross, and constructed churches in Bethlehem and Olivet, during a pivotal time when Christianity was recognized as the Roman Empire's religion.
A collection of short stories composed between 1910-62. It includes "Mr Loveday's Little Outing"; "Cruise"; "A House of Gentlefolks"; and, "The Sympathetic Passenger"