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Corpi vili" è una storia piena di brio. Protagonisti, i cosiddetti "Bright Young Things", i giovani brillanti dell'upper class londinese, e anzi il titolo, da principio, doveva essere proprio quello. Naturalmente, le feste vi abbondano, lo champagne scorre copioso, e i protagonisti - oltre a inventare di continuo nomi originali per i loro party - parlano una lingua stravagante e sofisticata, veloce, informale. D'altro lato, gli effetti del cra...

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he travelled extensively and published a number of travel books. In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marine...

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and...

When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, the author discovers not heroism, but humanity. In this title, the author's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in the story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45.

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In questa raccolta di racconti composti tra il 1925 e il 1962, cioè lungo tutto l'arco della vita creativa dell'autore, i lavori giovanili di Evelyn Waugh accompagnano i testi più noti della maturità, alcuni dei quali saranno di ispirazione per i suoi romanzi maggiori. Da "In equilibrio", scritto a soli ventidue anni, fino a "Basii Seal ancora in sella", terminato poco prima della morte, Waugh ci regala con le sue storie una specie di summa de...

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Waugh's biography of the Jesuit martyr, now available in "Modern Classics".

Evelyn Waugh, born on 23 October 1903, has been recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century. In 1930, following much consideration, Waugh converted to the Roman Catholic Church. He became determined to write a major Catholic biography, and selected Edmund Campion as his subject. Although its publication caused controvery among both Catholic and Protestant readers, it won the Hawthornden Prize. Waugh served in the Roy...

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Reissue. Ties in with the Penguin Travel promotion.

Non sapevo in realtà dove stavo andando, se me lo chiedevano, dicevo in Russia". Se anche si prendono tutti, ma proprio tutti gli stereotipi sullo strano essere che Mark Twain chiamava l'innocente all'estero, e li si dispone a formare un personaggio immaginario, si otterrà solo una pallida approssimazione a quel prototipo del viaggiatore, e dello scrittore di viaggi, che è stato Evelyn Waugh. Che nel 1928, quando a ventisei anni parte per la s...

Includes stories such as - "Mr Loveday's Little Outing", "Cruise", "Period Piece", "On Guard", "An Englishman's Home", "Excursion in Reality", "Bella Fleace Gave a Party", "Winner Takes All", "Work Suspended", "Scott-King's Modern Europe", "Basil Seal Rides Again", and "Charles Ryder's Schooldays".

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and...

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and...

Ufficiali e gentiluomini' è il secondo episodio della trilogia "Sword of honour", 'Spada d'onore'. La preoccupazione principale dei personaggi riguarda ancora una volta come accaparrarsi la migliore sistemazione nel quartier generale o un pranzo di almeno tre portate, ma la tragedia del conflitto bussa alla porta. Il protagonista, Guy Crouchback, fugge su una zattera dall'attacco tedesco a Creta e solo miracolosamente approda sulla costa norda...

Resa incondizionata', terzo e conclusivo episodio della trilogia 'Sword of honour', 'Spada d'onore', esce in Inghilterra nel 1961, a nove anni di distanza da "Uomini alle armi" e a cinque da "Ufficiali e gentiluomini". Il protagonista Guy Crouchback è approdato in una Londra definitivamente estranea, privo di incarichi, emarginato nel suo stesso corpo degli Alabardieri. In città ritrova sua moglie Virginia, una donna scapestrata e piena di vit...