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A Handful of Dust: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
13.99 NZD
15.99 (12% off)
Category: Classic Books | 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
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
13.99 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | 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
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh Centenary Edition) by Evelyn Waugh
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, SebastianÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them ...Show more
Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels. "Mr Loveday's Little Outing" is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; "Cruise" s ...Show more
Decline And Fall (TV Tie in) by Evelyn Waugh
24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's priso ...Show more
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh; David Bradshaw (Editor, Foreword by)
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfather 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, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always ...Show more
Scoop: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins
Lord 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 moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch ...Show more
The Coronation of Haile Selassie by Evelyn Waugh
4.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S. | Reading Level: very good
Published by Penguin for more than fifty years, Evelyn Waugh is one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century.
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh; Nancy Mitford
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley 'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'Independent on SundayNancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters o ...Show more
The Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh
32.95 NZD
34.00 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman is commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of his war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, h ...Show more
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Here, the bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and "vile bodies" in every kind of capricious escapade. Teetering on the brink of the preposterous, the plot is an adroit jigsaw of comic situations involving a vivid assortment of characters.
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
13.99 NZD
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Category: Classic Books | 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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