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A Handful of Dust: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dustis a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's Gothic pile to conduct an affair with shallow socialite John Beaver of the Belgravia set. A Handful of Dustremains one of the fi ...Show more
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
$35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Secondhand. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. Evelyn Waugh's third novel, Black Mischief is a witty satirical novel set in the fictional empire of Azania. 'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Az ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly ...Show more
Decline and Fall (HB) by Evelyn Waugh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, now in a wonderful new hardback editionSent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools ...Show more
Mr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch - The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, 1932-66 by Diana Cooper; Evelyn Waugh
$27.50 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good-very good
A correspondence that is entertaining, absorbing, thought-provoking and revealing about two of the most fascinating figures of their times.
Rossetti: His Life and Works by Evelyn Waugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentiethEvelyn Waugh's first book, Rossetti, is an intimate account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's tragic and mysterious life- the story behind some of the greatest poetry and painting of the ninet ...Show more
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
One of Evelyn Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news.
Scoop (HB) by Evelyn Waugh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The best satire of journalism ever written, now in a wonderful new hardback editionLord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a mome ...Show more
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Charlotte Mosley (Editor); Nancy Mitford; Evelyn Waugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The writers Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great friends, and their friendship gave rise to the 500 letters in this collection.
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Simon JamesIn 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 p ...Show more
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
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 hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...Show more
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