Modern Classics Scoop by Waugh, Evelyn

Modern Classics Scoop (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780141184029)

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Modern Classics Scoop by Waugh, Evelyn

Modern Classics Scoop

$15.81
Modern Classics Scoop by Waugh, Evelyn

Modern Classics Scoop

$15.81
Format: Paperback
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Evelyn Waugh's brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street, with an introduction by Alexander Waugh

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...

'Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch'
Christopher Hitchens

Author: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN-10: 0141184027
ISBN-13: 9780141184029
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2001
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.73d
By Evelyn Waugh
By Evelyn Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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