Decline And Fall - Couverture rigide

Waugh, Evelyn

 
9781857151565: Decline And Fall

Synopsis

A modern version of Voltaire's satitical CANDIDE, DECLINE AND FALL follows the adventures of the hapless Paul Pennyfeather as he is swept up in the sinister affairs of the glamorous Lady Metroland. Published in 1928, Evelyn Waugh's first novel is a surrealistic comedy of manners and a sardonic commentary on fashionable life in the 1920s

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Biographie de l'auteur

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A modern version of Voltaire's satitical CANDIDE, DECLINE AND FALL follows the adventures of the hapless Paul Pennyfeather as he is swept up in the sinister affairs of the glamorous Lady Metroland. Published in 1928, Evelyn Waugh's first novel is a surrealistic comedy of manners and a sardonic commentary on fashionable life in the 1920s

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