When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh - ISBN: 9780140182538
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Waugh’s witty travels: adventure, absurdity, and inspiration for literary classics.

When the Going Was Good

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    3 January 2019

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Summary

A delightful collection of Waugh’s travel writings including favourites Labels and Remote People.

Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about:

  • A cruise around the Mediterranean.
  • A train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie’s coronation in 1930.
  • His travels in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya an…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140182538
ISBN-10:0140182535
Author:Evelyn Waugh
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:3 January 2019
Weight:332g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 28mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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Critics Review

[a] humorous account of an agreeable young man’s peregrinations in picturesque lands

[a] humorous account of an agreeable young man’s peregrinations in picturesque lands * The New York Times *

About The Author

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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