Handful of Dust
 Amazon.com Review: "All over England people were waking up, queasy and despondent." Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the [... more]
$3.50
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library)
Five stars for Waugh, 0 stars for Everyman's Library: Though "Brideshead Revisited" may be his best known work, nothing conveys Waugh's sense of the world better than "The Sword of Honour" trilogy. His sacramental view of earthly [... more]
$23.00
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Helena (Loyola Classics)
Coming To Grips With The Cross: Evelyn Waugh is known for biting caustic satire and misogyny. He thinks nothing of killing small boys or tiny animals while scoring points against the bounders of society. His fiction contains more heartless, designing [... more]
$12.95
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The Loved One
Amazon.com Review: The prolific Waugh--an English novelist and satirist perhaps best known for Brideshead Revisited--described this slim, vicious comedy as "a little nightmare produced by the unaccustomed high living of a brief visit to Hollywood.& [... more]
$24.00
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Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library)
Amazon.com Review: A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, [... more]
$18.00
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Work Suspended and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
Satirical Stories from the English Author of 'Brideshead Revisited': From back cover: "In his elegant, malicious prose, Evelyn Waugh satirizes British society as he saw it over three decades. From 'Work Suspended,' where Plant, a writer of detective [... more]
$18.60
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The Sword of Honour (Penguin Modern Classics)
A good man in World War II: Guy Crouchback is almost saintly. He is Catholic, patriotic, and selfless. When World War II comes along he is eager to serve his country and to be thrown into the caldron of war. But, by his own admission, he is not " [... more]
$31.00
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The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (Penguin Modern ...
Amazon.com Review: The prolific Waugh--an English novelist and satirist perhaps best known for Brideshead Revisited--described this slim, vicious comedy as "a little nightmare produced by the unaccustomed high living of a brief visit to Hollywood.& [... more]
$14.45
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library classics)
Five stars for Waugh, 0 stars for Everyman's Library: Though "Brideshead Revisited" may be his best known work, nothing conveys Waugh's sense of the world better than "The Sword of Honour" trilogy. His sacramental view of earthly [... more]
$19.34
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Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics)
Twit Parade: On the one hand, "Vile Bodies" has much of what makes Evelyn Waugh so admired so many years after its 1930 publication: Whip-smart dialogue, characters hoisted on their own petards, brutal plot twists, and a sense of cosmic, comic [... more]
$16.50
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Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library Classics)
an impeccable Waugh: A perfect delight. Long did I search for this novel: long did I search for Waugh! When I first picked it up (I call it fate), it was only a matter of moments before I knew in my heart that we were old friends. It has the sensational [... more]
$16.08
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Put Out More Flags
Great Humor on WW II -- Note This Was Book Prior to More Morose Brideshead Revisited: This book generates a love for the main character whose soul is pure but contaminated with classic British spoil - he is a product of aristocratic inequitable advantage. [... more]
$54.95
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