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This biography of Evelyn Waugh, written with the full co-operation of the family and making use of a mass of unpublished letters and diaries, traces the remarkable career of a...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Evelyn Waugh's masterpeice, Brideshead Revisted is an extraordinary mediation on a lost world The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age...

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...

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...

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After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband,...

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: 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...

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...

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

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board faded and worn. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure. First published in 1945, Brideshead...

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: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The final guns of the Second World War are silencing, and with...

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...

A beautiful clothbound edition of Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before the Second World War The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks...

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: 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 -...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh's birth, four of the master's most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume. "Black...

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...