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1	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 $6.34! \| first editions \| SVS
2	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 $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	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 $16.32! new only from $18.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Decline & Fall more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist 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 $4.92! \| first editions \| SVS
5	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 $8.74! \| first editions \| SVS
6	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 $4.75! \| first editions \| SVS
7	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 $3.09! \| 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 $2.09! new only from $8.79! \| first editions \| SVS
9	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 $2.00! new only from $8.79! \| 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 $2.15! \| 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 $1.99! new only from $8.21! \| signed copies \| 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 $3.00! new only from $11.76! \| first editions \| SVS
13 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
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 $1.99! new only from $7.35! \| 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! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 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 $9.37! \| first editions
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 $4.29! new only from $12.49! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Brideshead Revisted more books like this by Evelyn Waugh, Jeremy Irons (Read by) add to wishlist Irons, who starred in the landmark 1981 television adaptation of Waugh's novel, narrates this classic tale that chronicles Charles Ryder's friendship with Sebastian Flyte and his family in the 1920s. Unabridged. 10 CDs. see all copies from $5.50! new only from $20.82! \| first editions \| SVS
19	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
20 view cover	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 $8.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $14.92! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Lonely Planet a Short Walk in the Hindu Kush more books like this by Eric Newby, Evelyn Waugh (Preface by) add to wishlist After a crash course in mountaineering, Newby goes from fashion-house toady to climber of Mir Samir (19,880'), a mountain in the Hindu Kush region of northeast Afghanistan. This droll recital of his experiences, along with his equally inexperienced friend Hugh, has become a classic of travel literature. see all copies from $2.83!
23	Rossetti: His Life & Works more books like this by Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist Evelyn Waugh's first book, published in 1928 when he was 25, is a sardonic account of the tragic and somewhat mysterious life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. see all copies from $9.31! first editions
24	The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper more books like this by Artemis Cooper, Evelyn Waugh add to wishlist Evelyn Waugh was not only one of the foremost novelists of his generation, he was also one of the last great practitioners of the art of letter writing. This previously unpublished correspondence between Waugh and Lady Diana Cooper reveals him at his witty and sparkling best. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $55.89! \| first editions \| SVS
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 $10.40! new only from $21.83!

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