Officers and Gentlemen (Sword of Honour, 2) - Softcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316216623 ISBN 13: 9780316216623

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2012

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Review:

"Deft and amusing, sober and compelling. And it offers, incidentally, one of the most graceful salutes of many seasons to the flexibility of the English language."--New York Times

"Wise, amusing, and beautifully written. And because Officers and Gentlemen verifies a deepening seriousness and charity in Mr. Waugh's art, it extends and renews the promise of his brilliant talent."--R.T. Horchler, Commonweal

"A very good novel indeed....Those who have served in the various American military forces will close the book reminded again that the more it changes the more it's the same."--Curtis Bradford, The New Republic

"An often very funny book....Every bit as good as Men at Arms, whose splendid characterications and fine writing led many in 1952 to predict that its author had begun the best English fictional account of World War II."--TIME

About the Author:

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0316216623
• ISBN 13: 9780316216623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352