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The Sword of Honour Trilogy
Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
On Sale: May 10, 1994
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh’s career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
On Sale: May 10, 1994
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh’s career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the... Read more >
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A Handful of Dust
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on... Read more >
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Brideshead Revisited
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 26, 1993
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea?sures... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 26, 1993
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea?sures... Read more >
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Brideshead Revisited (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Soon to be a major motion picture from Miramax Films, starring Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw, and Matthew Good, and directed by Julian Jarrold. Opens July 2008.
Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama of extraordinary richness and depth. The novel Waugh thought of as his... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Soon to be a major motion picture from Miramax Films, starring Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw, and Matthew Good, and directed by Julian Jarrold. Opens July 2008.
Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama of extraordinary richness and depth. The novel Waugh thought of as his... Read more >
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Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Format: Hardcover, 688 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth, four of the master’s most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume.
Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischievous–inventing a politically loopy African state as a means of pulverizing politics at home. In Scoop, it... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 688 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth, four of the master’s most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume.
Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischievous–inventing a politically loopy African state as a means of pulverizing politics at home. In Scoop, it... Read more >
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Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing
Format: Hardcover, 1152 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Thirty years’ worth of Evelyn Waugh’s inimitable travel writings have been gathered together for the first time in one volume.
Waugh’s accounts of his travels–spanning the years from 1929 to 1958–describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1152 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Thirty years’ worth of Evelyn Waugh’s inimitable travel writings have been gathered together for the first time in one volume.
Waugh’s accounts of his travels–spanning the years from 1929 to 1958–describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his... Read more >
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The Complete Short Stories
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waugh's short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century. We find in them Waugh's almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Evelyn Waugh's short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century. We find in them Waugh's almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the... Read more >
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Decline and Fall
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 23, 1993
Price: $17.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Decline and Fall (1928) was Evelyn Waugh's immensely successful first novel, and it displays not only all of its author's customary satiric genius and flair for unearthing the ridiculous in human nature, but also a youthful willingness to train those weapons on any and every thing in his... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 23, 1993
Price: $17.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Decline and Fall (1928) was Evelyn Waugh's immensely successful first novel, and it displays not only all of its author's customary satiric genius and flair for unearthing the ridiculous in human nature, but also a youthful willingness to train those weapons on any and every thing in his... Read more >
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