About this title: 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.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Trade Paper
Binding: Softcover / Good to Fair
Publisher: Penguin, Middlesex, England
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780140045956ISBN:0140045953
Description: Reproductions. Good. No Jacket. Trade Paper Letters Biography: A trade paperback edition of the letters of the English writer from 1914 to 1966. The cover is attached a little weakly, but the book is in pretty good shape. read more
Edition: First US Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, New York
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780899190211ISBN:0899190219
Description: VG/VG- 0899190219. 1st U. S. Edition. Light general wear, DJ edgeworn and rubbed but a nice copy with clean bright interior pages.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; Lit. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780140045956ISBN:0140045953
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Very light staining to the top edge. Very light corner bumping. Clean text and apparently unread. read more
Edition: First American Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780899190211ISBN:0899190219
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. In his Preface to this hefty collection, Mark Amory claims that Waugh often had in his life the ideal circumstances for writing letters: "adventure, boredom and idleness. " The letters are divided by stages in Waugh's life, each introduced, and the letters are annotated, chiefly as to the people mentioned. 664 pages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This copy ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780899190211ISBN:0899190219
Description: Very Good in Very good jacket. TIcknor & Fields Imprint. Very good BCE hardcover with very good DJ in new Brodart jacket. Splendid copy-unmarked, bright and clean-binding tight and square. DJ has light wear at spine ends and corners and closed tears top back. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, NY
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780140045956ISBN:0140045953
Description: Near Fine. 0140045953. 664 pages; Near Fine condition. Faint front hinge crease. No spine creases. Outside page edges lightly age tanned. Solid, clean. The wonderfully malicious wit that informed his novels with such satiric humour was used to equally devastating effect in his epistles to friends-The New York Times. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1980-10-15
ISBN-13:9780899190211ISBN:0899190219
Description: Very Good. Hardcover with dustjacket. APPEARS UNREAD. Bright, unmarked pages and firm binding. Jacket shows minor shelf rubbing and minor edge wear only (no tears). This is NOT an ex-library book. This remains a very good, sturdy, very useful copy. read more
"Years ago I wanted to see through different eyes, so I picked some men and read everything by them and about them. Evelyn Waugh I picked because he seemed to have a mind utterly alien to me in just about all ways--except that he deeply loved literature, and beautiful things, especially beautiful editions of books. We connected there.
I discovered a complex individual whose weakness was not loving other men (he managed to shove that down below the surface and keep it there after he left Oxford) but his intense desire to be an aristocrat. His letters to his toff friends have a tone that is utterly unlike his other letters, it's sort of arch, full of irreverence and in jokes, but this undertone of performing to be interesting, and yet demanding to be taken seriously. It's the oddest thing, and maybe only in my own eyes.
Anyway, I read this in conjunction with his diaries (he is one of the rare ones who kept a diary during his boarding school years, and what a goldmine that is!) and a couple of biographies once every ten years or so."
"I kept this book next to my bed for many years, opening it at random (after having read it cover to cover, of course) for reflection and laughs. One of my very favorite books."
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