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

Waugh, Evelyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400040779 ISBN 13: 9781400040773

Publisher: Everymans Library, 2003

Synopsis

In four short key works, an African state goes into a political tailspin, journalism comes under scrutiny, the California mortuary business is shown in a comic light, and a man goes mad on board an ocean liner.

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Review:

"As a writer of satiric and comic stories, Evelyn Waugh remains unmatched among modern writers." -"New York Times Book Review" "["Black Mischief" is a] brilliant comic-opera tale [that gives wide] scope to his gift for creating astounding absurdities. The book is continuously funny." -"New York Times" "The fun is fast and furious...Stop once to think of probability, and the illusion would vanish; but take ["Black Mischief"], as the author wrote it, in a fit of high spirits as an uproarious lark, and nothing better can or could be done." -"Saturday Review" "["Scoop"'s] urbane malice [is] as bright and sharp as tin; it is not only delightful but true." -"The New Republic" "Never before have the majestic themes of love and death been so delicately perverted to absurdity . . . ["The Loved One" is] a work of art, as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done." -"The New Yorker" "It is Mr. Waugh's greatness as a satirist that, although his characters are in themselves completely improbable, they are not impossible, for they are merely logical extensions of all too real human beings." -"The Spectator"

About this edition

• Publisher: Everymans Library
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1400040779
• ISBN 13: 9781400040773
• Binding: Hardcover