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In Robbery Under Law, subtitled 'The Mexican Object Lesson', Waugh presents a profoundly unpeaceful Mexican situation as a cautionary tale in which a once great civilisation - greater than the United States at the turn of the twentieth century - has succumbed, within the space of a single generation, to barbarism.
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Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). Waugh travelled extensively and also wrote several travel books, as well as a biography of Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox. Other famous works include his Sword of Honour trilogy, and Brideshead Revisited (1945).
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 014119362X
- ISBN 13 9780141193625
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages336
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Penguin Classics: 2011. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on the first end paper. Mild rubbing along the bottom edge of the jacket. Book and unclipped jacket are both in near fine condition. Seller Inventory # 003846
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