Officers and Gentlemen (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141184671 ISBN 13: 9780141184678

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

The second volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour

Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete.

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Review:

A maverick historian (The Atlantic)

Waugh's unsparing bitterness is one of the things that makes his writing so good (Daily Mail)

To know as Waugh knows that there are no more great journeys and possibly no more great vows and still to trouble to write a novel at all exhibits precisely that fine hardness of mind most characteristic of him (Joan Didion)

About the Author:

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was born in London and educated at Oxford. He quickly established a reputation with such social satirical novels as DECLINE AND FALL, VILE BODIES and SCOOP. Waugh became a Catholic in 1930, and his later books display a more serious attitude, as seen in the religious theme of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, a nostalgic evocation of student days at Oxford. His diaries were published in 1976, and his letters in 1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141184671
• ISBN 13: 9780141184678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256