Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold_图书大全
Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
ISBN: 9781400040773
作者: Evelyn Waugh
出版社: Everyman's Library
出版年: 2003-8-5
页数: 688
定价: USD 26.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth, four of the master’s most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume.
Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischievous–inventing a politically loopy African state as a means of pulverizing politics at home. In Scoop , it is journalism’s turn to be drawn and quartered. The Loved One (which became a famously hilarious film) sends up the California mortuary business. And The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a burst of fictionalized autobiography in which Pinfold goes mad, more or less, on board an ocean liner.
Here in four short–very different–novels are the mordant wit, inspired farce, snapping dialogue, and amazing characters that are the essence of everything Waugh ever wrote.
