The Coronation of Haile Selassie: Pocket Penguins (Pocket Penguins 70's S.) - Softcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141022442 ISBN 13: 9780141022444

Publisher: Penguin, 2005

Synopsis

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of 'good books for all'.

Published by Penguin for more than fifty years, Evelyn Waugh is one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century. In this irreverent personal account of the crowning of the last Emperor of Ethiopia - who inspired the Rastafarian religion - he makes full use of his comic genius, brilliantly capturing the bureaucracy, lunacy and passion of a country gripped by coronation fever.

About this title

About the Author:

Evelyn Waugh published his first novel, Decline and Fall, in 1928, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust and Scoop. During these years he travelled extensively, and published a number of travel books including Labels and Remote People. In 1945 he published Brideshead Revisited and Men at Arms in 1952. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0141022442
• ISBN 13: 9780141022444
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 64