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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Evelyn Waugh; Evelyn Waugh

A classic of our time, beautifully performed by Jeremy Irons and the basis of the award-winning television mini-series, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the Marckmain family, as narrated by friend Charles Ryder. Aristocratic, beautiful, and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline; the novel a mirror of the upper-class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s. Brideshead Revisited has become shorthand for a fantasy era of titled elegance, dead-end hedonism and fatuous wit.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2008, 2000, Hardcover - 1993, 1989, Hardcover - 1982, Hardcover - 1982, Softcover - 1981, 1979, 1960

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Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places, Library Edition

Evelyn Waugh; Jack London; Wilfred Thesiger; Redmond O'Hanlon; Norman MacLean

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Other editions: 2007

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Two Lives: Edmund Campion - Ronald Knox

Evelyn Waugh

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Hombres En Armas

Evelyn Waugh

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Retorno a Brideshead

Evelyn Waugh

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Other editions: Softcover - 2002

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Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing

Evelyn Waugh

Thirty years' worth of Evelyn Waugh's inimitable travel writings have been gathered together fo the first time in one volume.

Waugh's accounts of his travels--spanning the years from 1929 to 1958--describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelists's sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh pioneered the genre of modern travel writing in which the comic predicament of the traveler is as central as the world he encounters. He wrote with as sharp an eye for folly as for foliage, and a delight in the absurd, not least where his own comfort and dignity are concerned.

From his fresh take the well-traveled and hence alread "fully laveled" Mediterranean region in LabelsI, to a close-up view of Haile Selaissie's coronation in Remote People, from a comically miserable stint in British Guiana in Niney-two Days, to a sharp-eyed tour of The Holy Places, the seven travel books collected here provide a feast of literary adventures--as light, bright, sharp, and invigorating as Waugh's fiction.

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Black Mischief, Scoop, the Loved One, the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Evelyn Waugh

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Two Lives: Knox and Campion

Evelyn Waugh

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Black Mischief

Evelyn Waugh

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Other editions: 1977, Softcover - 1977, 1972, 1968

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Put Out More Flags

Evelyn Waugh

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Other editions: 1997, Softcover - 1977

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Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

A satire of decadence among the English upper class depicts the breakup of a marriage among London's gentry, following the changing relationship between Tony Last, who is obsessed with his Victorian gothic country estate, and his wife, Lady Brenda, who, bored with her husband, embarks on an affair with an ambitious social climber.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2001, 1991, Hardcover - 1989, Softcover - 1988, 1977, 1975, Hardcover - 1951, 1934

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Scoop

Evelyn Waugh

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Other editions: 1998, 1991, Softcover - 1977, 1977

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The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

Collected for the first time in a single volume: all of the short fiction by one of the 20th century's wittiest and most trenchant observers of the human comedy.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000

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On Guard, Bella Fleace Gave a Party: With Envelope

Evelyn Waugh

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The Complete Short Stories: And Selected Drawings

Evelyn Waugh; Ann Pasternak Slater; Ann Slater

An anthology featuring the complete short fiction of the critically acclaimed author of Brideshead Revisited presents thirty-nine stories, including "Mr. Loveday's Little Outing" and "Scott-King's Modern Europe," as well as the original illustrations to "Love Among the Ruins" and other graphics by the author.

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The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy

Evelyn Waugh

Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1999, Hardcover - 1994

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Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh

Decline and Fall (1928) was Evelyn Waugh's immensely successful first novel, and it displays not only all of its author's customary satiric genius and flair for unearthing the ridiculous in human nature, but also a youthful willingness to train those weapons on any and every thing in his path. In this fractured picaresque comedy of the hapless Paul Pennyfeather stumbling from one disaster to another, Waugh manages the delicious task of skewering every aspect of the society in which he lived.With an Introduction by Frank KermodeSir Frank Kermode, formerly Lord Northcliffe Professor at London University, is now Professor at Cambridge and Columbia Universities. His books include The Uses of and Continuities.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1999, 1996, Hardcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1977

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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh; Nancy Mitford; Charlotte Mosley

Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, matched wits and exchanged insults in more than five hundred letters, a continuous irreverent dialogue that stretched for twenty-two years. Their delicious correspondence, much of it never published before (for fear of speaking ill of the living), provides colorful glimpses of both lives, testifies to their enduring but thorny friendship, and evokes the literary and social circles of London and Paris at midcentury. In their letters they sharpened their wits at the expense of friends and enemies alike, but with particular relish they dissected their friends, who included Harold Acton, Graham Greene, the Sitwells, Duff and Diana Cooper, Randolph Churchill, and their favorite butt, Cyril Connolly. Waugh's pessimistic brand of Roman Catholicism clashed with Mitford's cheerful iconoclasms; her francophilia only fueled her friend's dislike of all things French. He accused her of bad grammar and worse theology; she nailed him with snobbery and anti-Semitism.

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Other editions: 1996

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Saint Edmund Campion: Priest and Martyr

Evelyn Waugh

For adventure, suspense, and sheer drama, Evelyn Waugh's biography of St. Edmund Campion rivals Braveheart. And it's told with the grace and skill that won Waugh millions of fans for his Brideshead Revisited. High adventure and holiness: it's a sure winner with all readers.

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Unconditional Surrender

Evelyn Waugh

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Officers and Gentlemen

Evelyn Waugh

This is the second volume in the 'Sword of Honor' trilogy. The other volumes in this trilogy include: 'Men at Arms' and 'The End of the Battle'.

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Other editions: 1995

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The Sword of Honour Trilogy

Evelyn Waugh

In the ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, published in 1957, Evelyn Waugh gives a fictional account of his own nervous breakdown. It is an extraordinary book, painful as well as funny, and unsparing of self-criticism. As his biographer Martin Stannard remarks, 'No one could dream up an accusation he had not already levelled at himself.'

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Brideshead Revisited: A Play

Evelyn Waugh; Roger Parsley

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Remote People: A Report from Ethiopia and British Africa, 1930-1931

Evelyn Waugh

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Other editions: Softcover - 1990

Men at Arms

Evelyn Waugh

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1989