BOOKS by Evelyn Waugh

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1	Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Brideshead Revisited more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, "Brideshead Revisited" looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The loved one more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist 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 $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	A Handful of Dust more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist 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 fiction, puts his incomplete novel in a drawer until such time as he can finish it (that is to say after the war), to Basil Seal Rides Again, in which the hero of Black Mischief defeats ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Vile Bodies more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the ... see all copies from $2.36! new only from $7.45! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Decline & Fall more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist After a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is forced to leave Oxford and begin a new life out in the wide world. His experiences take him from a boys' private school in Wales, where he meets some rather strange people, to a life of luxury in a grand country house and the Ritz Hotel, and then to seven years' hard labour in prison. Where will it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The loved one; an Anglo-American tragedy more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Scoop more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs. Algernon Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.45! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Black mischief more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way. When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with the aid of Minister of Modernization, Basil Seal, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Officers and Gentlemen more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.23! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Put Out More Flags more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? "Put Out More Flags" shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times. Some of them play a valorous part; others, like the scapegrace Basil Sea, disclose their incorrigible habit of self-preservation in all circumstances. Basil's ... see all copies from $2.79! new only from $7.56! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Edmund Campion more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist 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 $4.83! new only from $11.76! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Men at arms more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier copybook. "Men at Arms" is the first book in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| first editions
14 view cover	Helena more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist 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 $6.58! new only from $9.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	When the Going Was Good more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	End of the Battle more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist 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 $4.38! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist 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 $2.00! new only from $10.79! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The sword of honour trilogy more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist This is a trilogy of novels about World War II, based on the author's own experiences as an army officer. The focus of the action is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family. The story presents a moving but often hilarious picture of war's consolations and vicissitudes. see all copies from $9.34! new only from $14.88! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Tourist in Africa more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist The diary of Evelyn Waugh's travels across Central Africa in 1958, an idiosyncratic portrait of life and customs in Kenya, Rhodesia and Tanganynika at a key moment in the transition between colonialism and self-rule. see all copies from $2.45! new only from $40.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	Letters of Evelyn Waugh more books like this by Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory add to wishlist Evelyn Waugh was a loving Husband, a wise and affectionate father and the funniest English novelist of the century. This selection of letters does full justice to these splendid attribute's " Phillip Toynbee. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $50.22! \| first editions \| SVS
21	A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
22 view cover	The diaries of Evelyn Waugh more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist Travel in Africa,the English aristocracy,the bungling and courage of military life,post-1945 America, all these are favourable sites for the diaries of one of the harshest and funniest English novelists of this century. see all copies from $4.29! signed copies \| first editions
23	Unconditional surrender : the conclusion of Men at arms and Officers and gentlemen more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to keep insomnia at bay he has been imbibing an unappetizing cocktail of bromide, chloral and creme de menthe. He books a passage on the SS Caliban, and as it cruises towards Rangoon, he slips into madness. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.08! \| first editions
25 view cover	Two Lives: Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist Waugh wrote two biographies of very different English Roman Catholics. Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was a Jesuit priest who, in the turbulent years before the Spanish Armada, was charged with treason and executed. Waugh's book is an elegant homage to a man he revered as a hero and a martyr. Ronald Knox (1888-1957) was regarded as the most ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $21.00!

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