Black mischief ; Scoop ; The loved one ; The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold / Evelyn Waugh ; with an introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.

Series:

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

Everyman's library ; 265

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 622 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.

Summary:

Four of Evelyn Waugh's most wickedly scathing comedies. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxx-xxxiii).

ISBN:

1400040779

OCLC:

52268989