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Scoop: a Novel About Journalists (Evelyn Waugh Centenary Edition) by Evelyn Waugh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 weakens make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip form Mrs Algernon Stitch h ...Show more
The Coronation of Haile Selassie by Evelyn Waugh
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S. | Reading Level: very good
Published by Penguin for more than fifty years, Evelyn Waugh is one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century.
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Evelyn Waugh kept a diary almost continuously from the age of seven until a year before his death in 1966. Extracts from the diaries caused sensation when they were published by the 'Observer'. They are a unique literary document of 300,000 words which provide the background to the novels which made Wau ...Show more
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh; Nancy Mitford
$35.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley 'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'Independent on SundayNancy 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 o ...Show more
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: modern classics | Reading Level: very good
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.
The Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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, h ...Show more
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment of those inhabiting the social domain that lies between Park Lane and Bond Street.
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Simon JamesIn 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 p ...Show more
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things ...Show more
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
$12.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | 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
WAUGH IN ABYSSINIA by WAUGH EVELYN
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent In 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 ...Show more