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Author: Alec WaughBinding: HardbackPublished: CASSELL LONDON, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling novel chronicles the intricate lives of a British expatriate community residing in a picturesque...

Author: Alec WaughBinding: HardbackPublished: RU, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA Year To Remember: A Reminiscence Of 1931 chronicles a pivotal year through the eyes of a keen...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodA literary memoir as intimate as it is illuminating, My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles offers a rare, first-hand window into the life of one of...

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The Waugh family has been writing books since the nineteenth century. Evelyn's father, brother and son were all writers and now his grandson has taken up the baton. Based on...

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,...

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,...

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,...

My Name Escapes Me, the January 1995 to June 1996 diary of Alec Guinness, received wide critical acclaim and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year....

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...

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...

This biography of Evelyn Waugh, written with the full co-operation of the family and making use of a mass of unpublished letters and diaries, traces the remarkable career of a...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Facsimile DJ L.L.C. Boards - good; faded spine; light bumping on corners. Binding - slightly shaky. Pages...

Sir Alec Guinness was one the greatest actors of the twentieth century. With a talent recognised by discerning critics from his very first appearance on the stage he gained a...

Auberon Waugh has been compared to Jonathan Swift. He was an outrageous satirist who slaughtered whole herds of sacred cows and turned people's heartfelt convictions on their heads. The best...

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...

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Born into the vastness of Pixton Park in Somerset, Auberon Waugh was drawn early into class warfare; he pretended he had seen evacuees and children of servants eat rat poison...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages. This complete and unabridged anthology gathers six of Evelyn...

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...

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The book titled Vile Bodies by the author Evelyn Waugh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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...

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,...

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Author: Alex Bellos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of...