Most Popular Books by Evelyn Waugh

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.

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.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh''s 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragicomic disasters that reveal Waugh at his most scathing. The action is set in the brittle social world recognizable from Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, darkened and deepened by Waugh''s own experience of sexual betrayal. As Tony is driven by the urbane savagery of this world to seek solace in the wilds of the Brazilian jungle, "A Handful of Dust" demonstrates the incomparably brilliant and wicked wit of one of the twentieth century''s most accomplished novelists.

In four short key works, an African state goes into a political tailspin, journalism comes under scrutiny, the California mortuary business is shown in a comic light, and a man goes mad on board an ocean liner.

"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.

One of Evelyn Waugh''s most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. 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, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. But for, pale, ineffectual William Boot, editor of the Daily Beast''s ''nature notes'' column, being mistaken for a competent journalist may prove to be a fatal error... If you enjoyed Scoop, you might like Waugh''s Decline and Fall, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. ''Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch'' Christopher Hitchens

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.

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