Best Selling Books by Evelyn Waugh

The writers Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great friends, and their friendship gave rise to the 500 letters in this collection.

British expatriate Dennis Barlow is an aspiring poet who composes by day and works by night at the Happier Hunting Ground, a local pet cemetery. By chance he is called on to arrange a funeral for a fellow Brit (a victim of the movie industry) at the respendent Whispering Glades Cemetery, where he meets Aimée Thanatogenos, the beautiful junior cosmetician, and Mr Joyboy, the senior mortician, and the plot shifts into hilarious high gear.

The great author''s account of the journey that gave birth to his novel A Handful of Dust makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian''s reviewer found it ''exquisitely miserable''.

Evelyn Waugh''s acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life. 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 inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade - whether promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, a vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the fulfilment of unconscious desires. If you enjoyed Vile Bodies, you might like Waugh''s A Handful of Dust, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. ''The high point of the experimental, original Waugh'' Malcolm Bradbury, Sunday Times ''This brilliantly funny, anxious and resonant novel ... the difficult edgy guide to the turn of the decade'' Richard Jacobs ''It''s Britain''s Great Gatsby'' Stephen Fry, director of Vile Bodies film adaptation Bright Young Things

Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys'' private school in Wales. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds in Evelyn Waugh''s dazzling debut as a novelist, the young run riot and no one is safe, least of all Paul.

"In John Carmel Cardinal Heenan, Waugh found a sympathetic pastor and somewhat of a kindred spirit. This volume brings together the personal correspondence between Waugh and Heenan during the 1960s." - publishers description.

A scholarly conference in a military dictatorship. What could go wrong? Scott-King is a schoolmaster’s schoolmaster: quiet, measured, honest, and thoughtful. He is convinced to disrupt his quiet, consistent life in England to visit the totalitarian country of Neutralia, to participate in a conference on a poet who he has studied extensively. Unfortunately, it turns out that a dictatorship can be a dangerous place to be, and Scott-King must tread lightly – especially because he is without his passport, and no one from the British government knows that he’s there. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the biography of Ronald Knox - priest, classicist, prolific writer and one of the outstanding men of letters of his time. The renowned Oxford chaplain was a friend of figures such as G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, and was known for his caustic wit and spiritual wisdom. Evelyn Waugh, his devoted friend and admirer, was asked by Knox to write his biography just before his death in 1957. The result, published after two years of research and writing, is a tribute to a uniquely gifted man: ''the wit and scholar marked out for popularity and fame; the boon companion of a generation of legendary heroes; the writer of effortless felicity and versatility ... who never lost a friend or made an enemy''.

Ce retour au pays natal de Charles Ryder auquel l''auteur du fameux Cher Disparu nous convie, c''est un voyage au cœur d''un monde en voie de disparition que l''auteur pleure et nous invite à regretter avec lui. Passéisme peut-être, mais sans mélancolie. On retrouve ici comme dans toutes les autres œuvres d''Evelyn Waugh l''univers excentrique malicieux et enjoué qui a fait de cet auteur l''un des précurseurs des " jeunes gens en colère " qui ont révolutionné après guerre le monde des lettres anglaises. Raillerie et défense d''un ordre suranné.

Where can an author go to find peace and quiet?Gilbert Pinfold is, by all accounts, an accomplished man. He distinguished himself serving in the war, and then in peace as a novelist. He has travelled widely and has a successful marriage.But age is wearing on Gilbert Pinfold, and the combination of regular sedation and chronic drinking aren''t helping. After an unpleasant interview with the BBC, he decides to take a cruise to refresh himself.The idea is good, but when he starts hearing voices on the ship, things get worse very quickly.

Waugh brings some of his best characters back for another romp. Against the backdrop of the Phoney War, Alistair Trumpington wants only the chance to fight for a worthy cause, but instead he finds himself stuck in a never-ending series of military maneuvers, getting him nowhere closer to any front.Meanwhile, the scoundrel Basil Seal sees the burgeoning war as an opportunity to help only himself.

Indtryk fra forfatterens rejse gennem Kenya, Tanganyika og Rhodesia i 1959.