Brief Encounter

Alec Waugh

ISBN 10: 0352300663 / ISBN 13: 9780352300669

Published by Star Books, 1975

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Paperback original movie tie-in with a photo cover featuring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. Extremely light wear along the edges of the wraps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Brief Encounter
• Publisher: Star Books
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0352300663
• ISBN 13: 9780352300669
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Brief Encounter

About the Author

Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was a British novelist born in London and educated at Sherborne Public School, Dorset. Waugh’s first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), is a semi-autobiographical account of public school life that caused some controversy at the time and led to his expulsion. Waugh was the only boy ever to be expelled from The Old Shirburnian Society.

Despite setting this record, Waugh went on to become the successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many exotic places throughout his life which later became the settings for some of his texts. He was also a noted wine connoisseur and campaigned to make the ’cocktail party’ a regular feature of 1920s social life.