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Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

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Born in Hampstead and educated at Oxford University, Evelyn Waugh came from a literary family. His elder brother, Alec was a novelist, and his father, Arthur Waugh, was the influential head of a large publishing house. Even in his school days, Waugh showed sings of the profound belief in visa mer Catholicism and brilliant wit that were to mark his later years. Waugh began publishing his novels in the late 1920's. He joined the Royal Marines at the beginning of World War II and was one of the first to volunteer for commando service. In 1944 he survived a plane crash in Yugoslavia and, while hiding in a cave, corrected the proofs of one of his novels. Waugh's early novels, Decline and Fall (1927), Vile Bodies (1930), and A Handful of Dust (1934), established him as one of the funniest and most brilliant satirists the British had seen in years. He was particularly skillful at poking fun at the scramble for prominence among the upper classes and the struggle between the generations. He lived for a while in Hollywood, about which he wrote The Loved One (1948), a scathing attack on the United States's overly sentimental funeral practices. His greatest works, however, are Brideshead Revisited (1945), which has been made into a highly popular television miniseries, and the trilogy Sword of Honor (1965), composed of Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955), and The End of the Battle (1961). (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Evelyn Waugh

En förlorad värld (1945) 12,536 exemplar
En handfull stoft (1934) 4,376 exemplar
Press-stopp (1938) 3,794 exemplar
Skola för gentlemän (1928) 3,603 exemplar
Vile Bodies (1930) 3,472 exemplar
Okynniga svartingar (1932) 1,388 exemplar
Män i vapen : en roman (1952) 1,214 exemplar
Hissa fler flaggor (1942) 1,182 exemplar
The Sword of Honour Trilogy (1952) 1,087 exemplar
Herrar officerare : en roman (1955) 1,067 exemplar
Kapitulation utan villkor (1961) 950 exemplar
Helena (1950) 714 exemplar
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) 622 exemplar
When the Going Was Good (1946) 548 exemplar
Edmund Campion (1935) 515 exemplar
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (1980) 305 exemplar
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) 272 exemplar
Ronald Knox (1948) — Författare — 172 exemplar
Labels: A Mediterranean Journal (1930) 158 exemplar
Remote People (1931) 148 exemplar
A Tourist in Africa (1954) 119 exemplar
Waugh in Abyssinia (1984) 98 exemplar
The Seven Deadly Sins (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 90 exemplar
Selected Works (1977) 81 exemplar
Love Among the Ruins (1953) 59 exemplar
Scoop [and] Put out More Flags (1961) 54 exemplar
Robbery Under Law (1939) 33 exemplar
Rossetti: His Life and Works (1928) 27 exemplar
Tactical Exercise (1947) 23 exemplar
The world of Evelyn Waugh (1928) 14 exemplar
The Holy Places (1953) — Författare — 11 exemplar
Opere 1930-1957 (1992) 7 exemplar
Wine in peace and war (1947) 6 exemplar
Trois nouvelles (1994) 5 exemplar
Prose Memoirs Essays (1980) 4 exemplar
The surprise of excellence: modern essays on Max Beerbohm (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Journal de guerre: (1939-1945) (2019) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Impressions of Spain (1965) 2 exemplar
Must murjan : romaan (1990) 1 exemplar
Сборник 1 exemplar
2008 1 exemplar
Goa: The home of a saint (1953) 1 exemplar
Best of Evelyn Waugh (2008) 1 exemplar
Slepok epokhi (2004) 1 exemplar

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The Complete Stories (1971) — Förord, vissa utgåvor5,732 exemplar
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor4,624 exemplar
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) — Preface, vissa utgåvor1,342 exemplar
Förmöget folk (1906) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor; Förord, vissa utgåvor1,041 exemplar
The Book of Fantasy (1940) — Bidragsgivare — 601 exemplar
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor550 exemplar
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 430 exemplar
The Waters Of Siloe (1777) — Förord, vissa utgåvor414 exemplar
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 291 exemplar
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Bidragsgivare — 291 exemplar
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 275 exemplar
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 262 exemplar
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 190 exemplar
Love Letters (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 180 exemplar
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories for Late at Night (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 163 exemplar
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 147 exemplar
Writers at Work 03 (1967) — Interviewee — 142 exemplar
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 141 exemplar
Brideshead Revisited [1981 TV miniseries] (1981) — Original novel — 131 exemplar
Combined Operations: The Official Story of the Commandos (1943) — Inledning — 123 exemplar
The Norton Book of Travel (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 110 exemplar
Saints for Now (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 103 exemplar
65 Great Spine Chillers (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 79 exemplar
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 79 exemplar
Count Bohemond (1964) — Förord, vissa utgåvor78 exemplar
The Duchess of Jermyn Street (1905) — Förord, vissa utgåvor75 exemplar
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 74 exemplar
The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories (1805) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Bidragsgivare — 66 exemplar
Modern English Short Stories: Second Series (1911) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar
Climb: Stories of Survival from Rock, Snow and Ice (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar
65 Great Tales of Horror (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 59 exemplar
Nine Faces of Kenya (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 54 exemplar
Saints and Ourselves (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 43 exemplar
Unknown California (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 41 exemplar
Great World War II Stories: 50th Anniversary Collection (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
An autobiography from the Jesuit underground (1955) — Förord, vissa utgåvor26 exemplar
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar
Graham Greene: A Collection of Critical Essays (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
The Giant Book of Classic Chillers (1992) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor22 exemplar
Tales of Love and Horror (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
Decline and Fall [2017 TV Mini Series] (2014) — Original novel — 14 exemplar
Comedy Classics: 34 Hilarious Stories (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
In the Dead of Night (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Advice (1960) — Preface, vissa utgåvor10 exemplar
Terrors, Torments, and Traumas: An Anthology (1978) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
Tall Short Stories (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences (1932) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
My Favorite Suspense Stories (1968) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Nachtelijke cavalcade : twaalf ongewone vertellingen (1959) — Författare — 7 exemplar
The West Country Book (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Best crime stories. 4 (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Huivering wekken : 26 onthutsende verhalen (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Chill to the Sunlight: Tropical Stories of the Macabre (1978) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
The Paris Review 30 1963 Summer-Fall — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Tredive mesterfortællinger — Författare, vissa utgåvor3 exemplar
The New Decameron: The Fifth Day (1930) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
[Anthologie de nouvelles anglaises] (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Modern British and American short stories (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The New Decameron. Sixth volume (1929) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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Recensioner

William Boot, a young man who lives in genteel poverty, far from the iniquities of London, contributes nature notes to Lord Copper's Daily Beast, a national daily newspaper. He is dragooned into becoming a foreign correspondent, when the editors mistake him for John Courteney Boot, a fashionable novelist and a remote cousin. He is sent to Ishmaelia, a fictional state in East Africa, to report on the crisis there.

Lord Copper believes it "a very promising little war" and proposes "to give it fullest publicity". Despite his total ineptitude, Boot accidentally gets the journalistic "scoop" of the title. When he returns, the credit goes to the other Boot and William is left to return to his bucolic pursuits, much to his relief.… (mer)
 
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CalleFriden | 82 andra recensioner | Mar 15, 2023 |
Handlingen kretsar kring kapten Charles Ryder som under andra världskriget återvänder som officer till det magnifika engelska godset Brideshead, där han tillbringade mycket tid i sin ungdom, och hans minnen kring den förmögna, djupt troende katolska, familjen Flyte som bodde där. Charles lärde först känna familjen och godset genom yngste sonen Sebastian, som han var studiekamrat med vid Oxfords universitet. Genomgående teman i boken, tillika serien, är förutom krigens grymheter och förändringar i England även religion, konst och alkoholism.… (mer)
 
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CalleFriden | 265 andra recensioner | Feb 21, 2023 |
One of my favourite books of all times. And included the television series.
 
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Jannemangan | 265 andra recensioner | Nov 28, 2020 |
En underbar överklasskildring insvept i en väv av melankoli. Beskrivningen av den ungdomliga sommaren är underbar och får en att drömma nostalgiskt tillbaka till sin egen uppväxt, trots att den är milsvida skild från denna. Jag kan varmt rekommendera denna bok.
 
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pelo75 | 265 andra recensioner | Jun 16, 2019 |

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Statistik

Verk
122
Även av
73
Medlemmar
45,730
Popularitet
#354
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
832
ISBN
980
Språk
26
Favoritmärkt
291

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