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A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

64 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Everyman's Library, 2002

Another Great
I won't go on and on about my praise for Waugh. He is one of my favorite writers. About the book, I felt SO bad when I read about Tony Last at the end. So cruel. So, so cruel. It gave me the shivers. So, another Waugh novel that is witty, funny, and all the other things his books are. If you can appreciate intelligent writing then I highly recommend this book.

Decline and Fall

37 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Penguin Books Ltd, 1969

Deliciously scathing
In this his first novel, Evelyn Waugh lampoons the English education system, sporting events, theological study, the landed gentry, and prison reform, to name just some of the targets of his razor-sharp satirical barbs. Paul Pennyfeather, a third-year divinity student at Scone College, is kicked out after a prank is pulled on him leaving him indecently exposed; he then gets a job as a teacher in ...

Put Out More Flags

10 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Back Bay Books, 2002

War's a funny thing ...
This is Waugh's satirical look at England at the beginning of WW II, with two characters in particular receiving his sharp and witty arrows of reproach: Basil Seal, a military big-shot wannabe who ends up relocating London slum children when the army rejects him; and Ambrose Silk, an aesthete, who gets a job with the religious division of the Ministry of Information representing Atheists. Silk ...

Vile Bodies

25 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Penguin Books Ltd, 1970

"Faster, faster!"
(4.5 stars) Focused on the "bright, young things" whose frantic pursuits of pleasure led to constant and ever more frivolous parties in the years leading up to World War II, Vile Bodies offers a satiric look at every aspect of upper class British society. From the hilarious opening chapter, in which an assortment of British travelers is crossing the Channel from France during especially rough ...

Black Mischief

8 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Folio Society, 1980

The Great Waugh
I suspect this classic novel is out of print in the US for reasons of misguided political correctness, which is a great shame for this is probably Waugh's finest and funniest novel. (Penguin Books in the UK publish a copy which is available on the www.amazon.co.uk site). Black, Oxford-educated Seth ("Emperor of Azania,Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, ...

Brideshead Revisited

98 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

BBC Audiobooks America, 2008

Buy the hard-bound edition!
This brief review has two purposes. First, to encourage readers to buy the cloth-bound edition, which fits easily into the hand, has much cleaner printing than the paperback, and contains an excellent introduction by Sir Frank Kermode together with a helpful chronology, which puts Waugh into the context of contemporary writings and events. It is well worth the extra two dollars. My second ...

The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library)

6 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Everyman's Library, 1994

Five stars for Waugh, 0 stars for Everyman's Library
Though "Brideshead Revisited" may be his best known work, nothing conveys Waugh's sense of the world better than "The Sword of Honour" trilogy. His sacramental view of earthly reality is best expressed in a memorable exchange between Guy Crouchback, the book's protagonist, and an obviously overwhelmed Anglican minister. "... Do you agree," [Guy] asked earnestly, "that the Supernatural ...

THE LOVED ONE (TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS S.)

160 reviews
EVELYN WAUGH

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, 1990

This Book Influenced me to become a Funeral Director
In the past year I have gone back to this book and discovered it influenced my choice of a career in Funeral Service. This is true entertainment on the funeral industry. This book is quite prophetic. This year I attended a lecture for Funeral Directors on Pet Cemeteries. I immediately recalled this book and the Pet Cemetery: "The Happy Hunting Ground" a fictional employer mentioned in these ...

Scoop

43 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Little, Brown, 1977

Waugh's farce about the newspaper trade and making a name for oneself
Evelyn Waugh's send-up of the newspaper business, and where in other novels he could be bitterly satirical, here he's wildly farcical and broadly comical. William Boot, a nature writer for the DAILY BEAST, ("Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole" is given as an example of his "high-class style" of writing), is mistaken for the novelist John Boot and is sent to the African ...

Brideshead Revisited (MTI) (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

2 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Everyman's Library, 2008

A book to be cherished again and again
This is a spectacular, beautifully written novel. I bought this hardcover edition because I wanted to read the introduction by Frank Kermode. It offered a lot of background information pertaining to the novel, as well as references to previous editions and a timeline of the author's life. The story itself is very intriguing. Containing all the elements of a tragic love story-forbidden love, a ...

Edmund Campion: Scholar, Priest, Hero and Martyr

5 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Oxford University Press, USA, 1982

"a progress toward the cross"
"My charge is, of free cost to preach the Gospel, to minister the Sacraments, to instruct the simple, to reforme sinners, to confute errors-- in brief, to crie alarme spiritual against foul vice and proud ignorance wherewith many my dear Countrymen are abused. I never had mind, and am strictly forbidden by our Father that sent me, to deal in any respect with matter of State or Policy of this ...

Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh

Little Brown and Co, Boston, 1973

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)

1 review
Evelyn Waugh

Penguin Classics, 2000

Always Worth Revisiting
The purchase of Brideshead Revisited is one of sure investments in your library. You will revisit it very often because it is one of the books that keep you in their thrall forever. Actually, I have a copy in my desk in the office and pick it up to read a few pages when my students are late for meeting. This is a book which can be read in many ways - most of which open up a new perspective on ...

Waugh Abroad: The Collected Travel Writing (Everyman's Library)

3 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Everyman's Library, 2003

What Waugh Saw...
I purchased Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing : The Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh because I was looking for a copy of ROBBERY UNDER THE LAW by Waugh and that book was contained in this collection. Waugh's travel writing is informative and comical. He tells it as he sees it in that mid-20th century English style. There is a little bit of the "We've got an empire to look after" ...

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