Put Out More Flags
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A razor-sharp satirical novel set during the early months of World War II, Put Out More Flags chronicles the misadventures of Basil Seal, one of Evelyn Waugh's most gleefully amoral antiheroes, as he schemes and swindles his way through the chaos of wartime Britain. With biting wit and comic precision, Waugh illustrates how the outbreak of war reshapes — and in many cases, exposes — the idle, self-serving characters of the English upper class, each scrambling to find a role that suits their vanity rather than their country. Basil's most inspired racket involves billeting a trio of monstrous evacuee children on unsuspecting rural households, then extorting payment to remove them, a con that perfectly captures Waugh's darkly comedic vision of human opportunism. Published in 1942, the novel serves as both a fond farewell to the Bright Young Things of the interwar era and a mordant commentary on the absurdity of bureaucratic wartime England. Fans of sharp, ironic British fiction will find this a brilliantly entertaining and surprisingly poignant portrait of a world on the cusp of irreversible change.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Little, Brown and Company
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: later repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A razor-sharp satirical novel set during the early months of World War II, Put Out More Flags chronicles the misadventures of Basil Seal, one of Evelyn Waugh's most gleefully amoral antiheroes, as he schemes and swindles his way through the chaos of wartime Britain. With biting wit and comic precision, Waugh illustrates how the outbreak of war reshapes — and in many cases, exposes — the idle, self-serving characters of the English upper class, each scrambling to find a role that suits their vanity rather than their country. Basil's most inspired racket involves billeting a trio of monstrous evacuee children on unsuspecting rural households, then extorting payment to remove them, a con that perfectly captures Waugh's darkly comedic vision of human opportunism. Published in 1942, the novel serves as both a fond farewell to the Bright Young Things of the interwar era and a mordant commentary on the absurdity of bureaucratic wartime England. Fans of sharp, ironic British fiction will find this a brilliantly entertaining and surprisingly poignant portrait of a world on the cusp of irreversible change.