Waugh Decline Fall
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WAUGH, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Illustrated by the Author.
Schutzumschlag mit Fehlstellen.
Boston, Little, Brown and Company 1946. 293 S. mit zahlr. Illustr. Orig.-Leinen mit Schutzumschlag.
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Stannard, Martin: Evelyn Waugh. No abiding city, 1939-1966. Mit einem Vorwort des Verfassers. Mit Anmerkungen, Literaturverzeichnis und Register. Preface. With works by Waugh and index. London, J.M. Dent, 1992. ISBN: 0460860623
Sehr guter Zustand. Frisches Exemplar. Wie ungelesen. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. - - Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 - 10 April 1966) was an English writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy that clearly manifest his Catholic background. Many of Waugh's novels depict British aristocracy and high society, which he satirises but to which he was also strongly attracted. In addition, he wrote short stories, three biographies, and the first volume of an unfinished autobiography. His travel literature, extensive diaries and correspondence have also been published. Waugh's works were very successful with the reading public and he was widely admired as a humorist and as a prose stylist, but as his social conservatism and religiosity became more overt, his works grew more controversial with critics. In his notes for an unpublished review of Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell declared that Waugh was "about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions." Martin Amis found that the snobbery of Brideshead was "a failure of imagination, an artistic failure." On the other hand, American literary critic Edmund Wilson pronounced Waugh "the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in English since Bernard Shaw." Time magazine, in a 1966 obituary, summarised his oeuvre by claiming that Waugh had "developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world.". ... wikipedia--wiki-Evelyn_Waugh. Aus: wikipedia- , ISBN-13: 9780460860628
Erstausgabe. First Imprint. xx, 523 Seiten und 8 Blatt mit Abbildungen. Plates. Hardcover with Dustjacket. Very Good. 24 cm. Blaues Leinen mit silbergeprägten Rückentiteln, farbigen Vorsätzen und Schutzumschlag.
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Waugh, Evelyn: Sword of Honour Trilogy. Men at Arms - Officers and Gentlemen - Unconditional Surrender. - (=Penguin Twentieth Century Classics). Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1984. ISBN: 0140069305
Guter Zustand. Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Obere hintere Buchecke minimal gestaucht. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. - The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh is his look at the Second World War. It consists of three novels, Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and Unconditional Surrender (1961, published as The End of the Battle in the U.S.), which loosely parallel his wartime experiences. Waugh received the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Men at Arms. ... Appreciation It paints an ironic picture of regimental life in the British Army and is a satire on the wasteful and perverse bureaucracy of modern warfare. The point of view of Guy, whose Roman Catholicism and Italian experience combine with his diffident personality to make him something of an outside observer in English society, enables Waugh to push the satire hard and remain in voice. Underneath the comedy, the theme emerges ever more strongly. Guy Crouchback is a quintessentially English figure with his instinctive understanding of his culture, his hesitancy, courtesy and reluctance to make a scene. The novel reveals his discovery that the romantic worship of tradition and heroism - the aristocratic values which have supported him all his life - does not work in the modern world. This is made explicit in the episode after which the trilogy is named, at the beginning of the third and final book. A splendid ceremonial sword, the "Sword of Stalingrad" is made "at the King's command", to be presented to the Soviet Union in recognition of the sacrifices that the Soviet people have made in the war against the Nazis (in reality, this was the jewelled sword commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad, commissioned by George VI). Before being sent to Moscow, it is put on display to the British public in Westminster Abbey; long queues of people "suffused with gratitude to their remote allies" come to worship it. Guy Crouchback is unmoved and chooses not to visit, as he is distinctly not impressed by Stalin: "he was not tempted to join them in their piety". Instead he goes for a surfeit of luxurious food for lunch on his 40th birthday and dwells neither on the past nor the future. It is a resigned rather than an idealistic Guy who goes to Yugoslavia, and it is made clear that the future belongs not to idealism but to the cynical Trimmer or the empty American Padfield. We are never quite sure whether it is that Guy is powerless to resist the world's decline from a Golden Age of chivalry or whether the Golden Age was a romantic illusion. wikipedia--wiki-Sword_of_Honour - - Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 - 10 April 1966) was an English writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy that clearly manifest his Catholic background. Many of Waugh's novels depict British aristocracy and high society, which he satirises but to which he was also strongly attracted. In addition, he wrote short stories, three biographies, and the first volume of an unfinished autobiography. His travel literature, extensive diaries and correspondence have also been published. Waugh's works were very successful with the reading public and he was widely admired as a humorist and as a prose stylist, but as his social conservatism and religiosity became more overt, his works grew more controversial with critics. In his notes for an unpublished review of Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell declared that Waugh was "about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions." Martin Amis found that the snobbery of Brideshead was "a failure of imagination, an artistic failure." On the other hand, American literary critic Edmund Wilson pronounced Waugh "the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in English since Bernard Shaw." Time magazine, in a 1966 obituary, summarised his oeuvre by claiming that Waugh had "developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world.". ... wikipedia--wiki-Evelyn_Waugh. Aus: wikipedia- , ISBN-13: 9780140069303
Erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe. 572 (4) Seiten. 19,7 cm. Good Condition. Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Dieses Buch ist in englischer Sprache.
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Waugh, Evelyn: Unconditional Surrender. The Conclusion of Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen. - (=Penguin Twentieth Century Classics). Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, ohne Jahresangabe (ca. 1995). ISBN: 0140182462
Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Guter Zustand. - Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 - 10 April 1966) was an English writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy that clearly manifest his Catholic background. Many of Waugh's novels depict British aristocracy and high society, which he satirises but to which he was also strongly attracted. In addition, he wrote short stories, three biographies, and the first volume of an unfinished autobiography. His travel literature, extensive diaries and correspondence have also been published. Waugh's works were very successful with the reading public and he was widely admired as a humorist and as a prose stylist, but as his social conservatism and religiosity became more overt, his works grew more controversial with critics. In his notes for an unpublished review of Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell declared that Waugh was "about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions." Martin Amis found that the snobbery of Brideshead was "a failure of imagination, an artistic failure." On the other hand, American literary critic Edmund Wilson pronounced Waugh "the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in English since Bernard Shaw." Time magazine, in a 1966 obituary, summarised his oeuvre by claiming that Waugh had "developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world.". ... wikipedia-org-wiki-Evelyn_Waugh. Aus: wikipedia-org , ISBN-13: 9780140182460
19. Auflage. 239 (1) Seiten. 19,2 x 13 x 2 cm. Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Dieses Buch ist in englischer Sprache.
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