The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 0316925462

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Collected for the first time in a single volume: all of the short fiction by one of the 20th century's wittiest and most trenchant observers of the human comedy.


VILE BODIES

VILE BODIES

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Alien Ebooks

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1667623796

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Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”


ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD

ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Alien Ebooks

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1667623753

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A successful, middle-aged novelist with a case of 'bad nerves,' Gilbert Pinfold embarks on a recuperative trip to Ceylon. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, loud revival meetings. He can only infer that somewhere concealed in his room an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship. And then, instead of just sounds, he hears voices. But they are not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frightening intimate way, about him!


Officers and Gentlemen

Officers and Gentlemen

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Officers and Gentlemen" by Evelyn Waugh. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


Put Out More Flags

Put Out More Flags

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0316216437

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Upper-class scoundrel Basil Seal, mad, bad, and dangerous to know, creates havoc wherever he goes, much to the despair of the three women in his life-his sister, his mother, and his mistress. When Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany, it seems the perfect opportunity for more action and adventure. So Basil follows the call to arms and sets forth to enjoy his finest hour-as a war hero. Basil's instincts for self-preservation come to the fore as he insinuates himself into the Ministry of Information and a little-known section of Military Security. With Europe frozen in the "phoney war," when will Basil's big chance to fight finally arrive?


Ninety-two Days

Ninety-two Days

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 9780140188400

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Describes the isolated cattle country of Guiana, sparsely populated by a bizarre collection of visionaries, rogues and ranchers. This book records the author's nightmarish experiences traveling on foot, by horse and by boat through the jungle into Brazil.


When the Going Was Good

When the Going Was Good

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2012-05-31

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0718197763

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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.


Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9780141187501

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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 inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires.


Waugh Abroad

Waugh Abroad

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781400040766

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Thirty years’ worth of Evelyn Waugh’s inimitable travel writings have been gathered together for the first time in one volume. Waugh’s accounts of his travels–spanning the years from 1929 to 1958–describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelist’s sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh pioneered the genre of modern travel writing in which the comic predicament of the traveler is as central as the world he encounters. He wrote with as sharp an eye for folly as for foliage, and a delight in the absurd, not least where his own comfort and dignity are concerned. From his fresh take on the well-traveled and hence already “fully labeled” Mediterranean region in Labels, to a close-up view of Haile Selassie’s coronation in Remote People, from a comically miserable stint in British Guiana.