Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, Paperback

Covers correspondence of more than 22 years between two of the 20th century's most amusing and gifted writers, and provides a colourful glimpse int...

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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Eliza KnightNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 201 x 28Cover type: Paper...

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Reducere. Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stor...

In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. This title captures the dilemmas and comple...

After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of h...

Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman is commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the c...

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Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's bestselling comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s is the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a bible -...

Reducere. Award NameLambda Literary AwardsAward categoryBisexual NonfictionA terrifically engaging and original biography of one of England's greatest noveli...

The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary time...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Evelyn WaughNumber of pages: 320Collection: Penguin EssentialsPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 182 x 113 x ...

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O satira sclipitoare si plina de umor, un roman clasic al secolului XX.Nu mica i-a fost mirarea lui Paul Pennyfeather cand, dat afara de la Oxford ...

An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horro...

Reducere. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and j...

Reducere. Evelyn Waugh presented his biography of St. Edmund Campion, the Elizabethan poet, scholar and gentleman who became the haunted, trapped and murdere...

Reducere. Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emp...

The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross, and built...

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. Th...

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The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bo...

In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at T...

Set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, this novel satirizes the American way of death and of...

When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-info...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Evelyn WaughNumber of pages: 336Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 1...

Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come ...

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Reducere. When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather...

Reducere. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and j...

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 Kn...

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Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings b...

Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. 'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy...

Reducere. "An eminently readable comedy of modern war" (New York Times), Men at Arms is the first novel in Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy. G...

During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and ...

Reissue. Mitford was a witty, intelligent and often acerbic observer of upper-class English idiosyncracies. She was also an inveterate writer of le...

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebast...

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One of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written, Nancy Mitford's classic is now a major BBC and Prime Video series dire...

It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Ch...

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, ...