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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and 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). Waugh travelled extensively and also wrote several travel books, as well as a biography of Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox. Other famous works include his Sword of Honour trilogy, and Brideshead Revisited (1945). Zusammenfassung Begins with an account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for "The Times".

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An outrageously disdainful, wonderfully funny account ... he wrote like an angel - a fallen one
Irish Times

Product details

• Authors: Evelyn Waugh
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.03.2002
• EAN: 9780141186399
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118639-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Africa; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Republic of South Africa, Central Africa, Ethiopia, TRAVEL / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, TRAVEL / Africa / East / General, TRAVEL / Africa / Central