Waugh in Abyssinia - Couverture souple

Waugh, Evelyn; Hamilton, John Maxwell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807132519 ISBN 13 : 9780807132517

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Waugh Evelyn

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

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).

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent rubbing shoulders with less than honest officials, Arab spies, pyjama-wearing radicals and disgruntled journalists. Witty, lucid and penetrating, Evelyn Waugh captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0807132519
• ISBN 13: 9780807132517
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288