The Complete Short Stories - Couverture rigide

Waugh, Evelyn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1857151909 ISBN 13 : 9781857151909

Editeur : Everyman, 1998

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

The greatest English comic novelist of the twentieth century produced a considerable body of shorter fiction, including several master-pieces, notably Mr Loveday's Little Outing and Scott-King's Modern Europe. These stories have all Waugh's characteristically brilliant, savage wit and reproduce his unmistakeable world in miniature. They also constitute a vital supplement to the major novels, while standing up as significant works in their own right. Two chapters of Waugh's tantalizingly unfinished novel Work Suspended are also included. This edition brings back into print 17 stories that have long been unavailable in England and America. (1998-07-17)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he travelled extensively and published a number of travel books. In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards. He went on to write a number of other books, including Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Men at Arms (1952). Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Everyman
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1857151909
• ISBN 13: 9781857151909
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 704