Put Out More Flags
$23.87
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
21 September 2000
Summary
Evelyn Waugh’s hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the ‘phoney war’.
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 contribution to the war effort involves the use o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184012 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184019 |
| Author: | Evelyn Waugh, Nigel Spivey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 21 September 2000 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 131mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
a wicked satire in the well-known Waugh manner
a wicked satire in the well-known Waugh manner * The New York Times *
a novel of breathtaking symmetry, grace, craft, and discipline – L. E. Sissman * The Atlantic *
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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