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1	Brideshead Revisited more books like this by Evelyn Waugh This is Evelyn Waugh's outsider's account of a troubled aristocratic family. Charles Ryder, the narrator, is a dull and rather pompous undergraduate at Oxford when he meets Sebastian Flyte, a wealthy and sybaritic classmate. The two become improbable friends, and Sebastian brings Charles to Brideshead, his family estate, and introduces him into ... see all copies from $3.79! new only from $9.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Put Out More Flags more books like this by Evelyn Waugh This comic novel of life in Britain during the early days of the Second World War is set mainly among the fashionable demimonde of aristocratic London. It portrays a society thrown into a mild upheaval by the prospect of imminent ruin and death, but not quite unhinged enough to lose sight of who does and does not belong in the best regiments and ... see all copies from $6.16! new only from $6.16! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Handful of Dust more books like this by Evelyn Waugh Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have money, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom, and becomes enamoured of a social ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.60! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The loved one more books like this by Evelyn Waugh In Waugh's satire of American life, Barlow, the English protagonist, is a young man who comes to Hollywood to stay with the screenwriter Francis Hinsley, his uncle. Shortly after Barlow's arrival, Hinsley is fired from his position and hangs himself. While making arrangements for the burial, Barlow falls in love with Aimee Thanatogenes, one of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Vile Bodies more books like this by Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us to society as it used to be but that now is gone forever, and probably for good. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.38! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Decline & Fall more books like this by Evelyn Waugh Waugh's first published novel is a picaresque satire in the manner of Fielding or Sterne. It follows the misadventures of Paul Pennyfeather, a divinity student at Oxford who is stripped naked by a gang of drunken classmates one night and subsequently expelled for gross indecency. He takes a job as a schoolmaster in Wales and falls in love with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Scoop more books like this by Evelyn Waugh In "Scoop, " surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure, " Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism an how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more ... see all copies from $2.42! new only from $6.60! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Edmund Campion more books like this by Evelyn Waugh Edmund Campion was an Oxford-educated Anglican priest who became a Catholic and was martyred during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Evelyn Waugh (himself a convert to Catholicism) traces Campion's life from his days as the queen's favorite to his end--when he was hanged, drawn, and quartered. see all copies from $6.00! new only from $13.29! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Black mischief more books like this by Evelyn Waugh In Waugh's scathing satire set in the fictional African kingdom of Azania, the young Emperor Seth--having discreetly assassinated his father and incarcerated his elder brother--has lately risen to the throne. Oxford-educated and conversant with the latest European trends of thought, Seth is determined to remake his impoverished tribal homeland ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Helena more books like this by Evelyn Waugh Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is suddenly betrothed to the warrior who becomes the Roman emperor Constantius. She spends her life seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient world. see all copies from $5.50! new only from $9.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder more books like this by Evelyn Waugh This is Evelyn Waugh's outsider's account of a troubled aristocratic family. Charles Ryder, the narrator, is a dull and rather pompous undergraduate at Oxford when he meets Sebastian Flyte, a wealthy and sybaritic classmate. The two become improbable friends, and Sebastian brings Charles to Brideshead, his family estate, and introduces him into ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Officers and Gentlemen more books like this by Evelyn Waugh This is the second volume in the 'Sword of Honor' trilogy. The other volumes in this trilogy include: 'Men at Arms' and 'The End of the Battle'. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.01! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Men at arms more books like this by Evelyn Waugh The first volume of Evelyn Waugh's masterful trilogy about war, religion, andpolitics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.43! \| first editions \| SVS
14	The loved one; an Anglo-American tragedy more books like this by Evelyn Waugh see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	End of the Battle more books like this by Evelyn Waugh The first volume of the author's "Sword of Honor" trilogy, which also includes OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN and THE END OF THE BATTLE. It portrays the events of the Second World War as seen through the jaded and melancholy eyes of Guy Crouchback, a middle-aged civilian who joins the Halberdiers, a venerable British army regiment, at the start of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29! \| first editions
16 view cover	The sword of honour trilogy more books like this by Evelyn Waugh (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 challenge to defend Christian ... see all copies from $5.55! new only from $15.14! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh more books like this by Evelyn Waugh Collected for the first time in a single volume: all of the short fiction by one of the 20th century's wittiest and most trenchant observers of the human comedy. see all copies from $4.91! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	When the Going Was Good more books like this by Evelyn Waugh see all copies from $2.54! new only from $66.08! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece more books like this by Evelyn Waugh An autobiographical novel in which Gilbert Pinfold, a middle-aged English novelist, is on a long sea voyage home to England. A medication prescribed by his doctor causes an extended sequence of hallucinations, in which Pinfold hears voices describing him as a hypocrite and snob and plotting to do away with him. Unusually serious and stylistically ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	Letters of Evelyn Waugh more books like this by Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory In his extremely amusing correspondence, Evelyn Waugh reveals himself to be a witty, perspicacious, eccentric, often commonsensical man of letters--and also a neglectful, even cruel parent who found his six children tedious and inconvenient. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $80.78! \| first editions
21	Tourist in Africa. more books like this by Evelyn Waugh see all copies from $8.00! first editions
22	The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold more books like this by Evelyn Waugh An autobiographical novel in which Gilbert Pinfold, a middle-aged English novelist, is on a long sea voyage home to England. A medication prescribed by his doctor causes an extended sequence of hallucinations, in which Pinfold hears voices describing him as a hypocrite and snob and plotting to do away with him. Unusually serious and stylistically ... see all copies from $2.70! new only from $15.15! \| first editions
23	The diaries of Evelyn Waugh more books like this by Evelyn Waugh see all copies from $7.22! first editions
24	A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography more books like this by Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh's one autobiographical volume is candid and humorous but has its dark side, including an account of his attempt to drown himself in 1925. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $14.95! \| first editions
25 view cover	Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing: The Collected Travel Writing more books like this by Evelyn Waugh, William Dalrymple (Introduction by), Nicholas Shakespeare (Introduction by) Evelyn Waugh traveled often and extensively, and most of his trips to other countries confirmed his curmudgeonly prejudices. In this collection, he writes amusingly about everything from dining in Paris to camel-trekking in Ethiopia--locales that he used in his novels to great effect. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.50! \| SVS

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