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This biography of Evelyn Waugh, written with the full co-operation of the family and making use of a mass of unpublished letters and diaries, traces the remarkable career of a...

Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn a literary landscape dominated by towering male voices, Evelyn Waugh's complex, often contradictory portrayals of women stand as one of the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few literary figures of the twentieth century lived as dramatically as Evelyn...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in twentieth-century British literature cut as sharp...

The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it...

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric,...

Edition: 1st american ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerA richly illustrated biographical portrait, Evelyn Waugh and His World presents a vivid panorama of one of...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small splotch on FEP, otherwise fineFrederick J. Stopp's Evelyn Waugh: Portrait Of An Artist presents a...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: dj clipped within mylar. In the sun-drenched, death-obsessed world of Hollywood, California, a young British...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerFrederick J. Stopp's Evelyn Waugh: Portrait Of An Artist presents a comprehensive biographical and critical examination of the...

Author: Martin StannardBinding: HardbackPublished: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 1987Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biography explores the early life of the acclaimed author Evelyn Waugh,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew British writers of the twentieth century have inspired as much fascination, controversy, and devoted readership as Evelyn Waugh — and Evelyn Waugh and His...

Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, with an introduction by Barbara Cooke Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position...

The characters who appear and occasionally reappear in the novels of Evelyn Waugh form a fascinating, intricate group. They and the world they moved in came partly from Waugh's imagination,...

Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsA rigorous work of literary criticism, The Picturesque Prison: Evelyn Waugh and His Writing presents a comprehensive...

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Correspondence from over 22 years between two of the twentieth century's greatest writers, reissued in a new jacket look Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's...

Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's...

Evelyn Waugh chose the name \"Labels\" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already \"fully labelled\" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned...

Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design....

Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.' After seven years of marriage, the...

Edition: later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA razor-sharp satirical novel set during the early months of World War II, Put Out More...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the glittering yet hollow world of 1920s London, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies chronicles the frenetic misadventures...

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Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA Little Learning is the intimate and candid memoir of one of the twentieth century's most...

One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies,Scoopis a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the early 1930s, Evelyn Waugh embarked on a journey through East Africa and the Horn of Africa, and Remote People chronicles that extraordinary adventure...

Author: Evelyn WaughBinding: PaperbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageEvelyn Waugh’s masterful biography of Edmund Campion offers a penetrating...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - some marks. Binding - tight. Clean copy. A darkly comic and semi-autobiographical...

Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before the Second World War, new to the Penguin English Library The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Small chips otherwise jacket is in good condition. Pages are clean and...

Edition: new ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Text - clean. A darkly comic...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Facsimile DJ L.L.C. Boards - good with a faded spine and minor specks. Binding -...

Evelyn Waugh was not only one of the foremost novelists of his generation, he was also one of the last great practitioners of the art of letter writing. This previously...

These pieces show the range of Waugh's skills: Mr Loveday's Little Outing; Cruise; Period Piece; On Guard; An Englishman's Home; Excursion in Reality; Bella Fleace Gave a Party; Winner Takes...

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation...