The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
Title The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh PDF eBook
Author Evelyn Waugh
Publisher Hachette Digital, Inc.
Pages 658
Release 1998
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0316925462

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Collected for the first time in a single volume: all of the short fiction by one of the 20th century's wittiest and most trenchant observers of the human comedy.

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER
Title BRIDESHEAD REVISITED;THE SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES OF CAPTAIN CHARLES RYDER PDF eBook
Author Evelyn Waugh
Publisher Alien Ebooks
Pages 445
Release 2023-06-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1667623680

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VILE BODIES

VILE BODIES
Title VILE BODIES PDF eBook
Author Evelyn Waugh
Publisher Alien Ebooks
Pages 278
Release 2023-06-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1667623796

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Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”

Decline and Fall

Decline and Fall
Title Decline and Fall PDF eBook
Author Evelyn Waugh
Publisher Standard Ebooks
Pages 229
Release 2024-01-01T17:32:52Z
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Paul Pennyfeather is a second-year theology student who, as a result of mistaken identity, has his “education discontinued for personal reasons.” He ends up as a schoolmaster at a fourth-rate school, hired despite not meeting any of the qualifications in their advertisement. He there encounters a cornucopia of eccentric characters, including another master who has a wooden leg, a former clergyman with capital-D Doubts, and a servant who tells everyone he’s rich, but with a different tale for each about why he’s posing as a servant. Paul’s time at school leads to romance with a student’s mother, and that in turn leads to enormous complications in Paul’s life. Inspired in part by his own experiences in school and as a schoolmaster, Evelyn Waugh’s first published novel, Decline and Fall, is a dark and occasionally farcical satire of British college life. It’s something of a perverse coming-of-age story, subverting the expected journey and ending that the archetype usually demands. Shining a devastating light on many of the societal struggles of post-WWI Britain, Waugh took his novel’s title from another work that revealed the ineluctable descent of a great society: Gibbons’ The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Waugh issued a new edition of Decline and Fall in 1960 that contained restored text that was removed by his publisher from the first edition. This Standard Ebooks edition follows the first edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD

ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD
Title ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD PDF eBook
Author Evelyn Waugh
Publisher Alien Ebooks
Pages 190
Release 2023-06-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1667623753

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A successful, middle-aged novelist with a case of 'bad nerves,' Gilbert Pinfold embarks on a recuperative trip to Ceylon. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, loud revival meetings. He can only infer that somewhere concealed in his room an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship. And then, instead of just sounds, he hears voices. But they are not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frightening intimate way, about him!

Ninety-two Days

Ninety-two Days
Title Ninety-two Days PDF eBook
Author Evelyn Waugh
Publisher Penguin Books
Pages 169
Release 1986
Genre Brazil
ISBN 9780140188400

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Describes the isolated cattle country of Guiana, sparsely populated by a bizarre collection of visionaries, rogues and ranchers. This book records the author's nightmarish experiences traveling on foot, by horse and by boat through the jungle into Brazil.

Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies
Title Vile Bodies PDF eBook
Author Evelyn Waugh
Publisher
Pages 223
Release 2003
Genre Mayfair (London, England)
ISBN 9780141187501

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In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires.