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Black Mischief: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Evelyn Waugh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iun 2000
'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.'

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-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with the aid if Minister of Modernization Basil Seal, Seth plans to introduce his people to the civilized ways of the west - but will it be as simple as that?
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ISBN-13: 9780141183985
ISBN-10: 0141183985
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 9 drawings
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel,Decline and Fall, which was soon followed byVile Bodies(1930),Black Mischief(1932),A Handful of Dust(1934) andScoop(1938). During these years he travelled extensively in most parts of Europe, the Near East, Africa and tropical America, and published a number of travel books, includingLabels(1930),Remote People,(1931),Ninety-Two Days(1934) andWaugh in Abyssinia(1936). In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, serving in the Middle East and in Yugoslavia. In 1942 he publishedPut Out More Flagsand then in 1945Brideshead Revisited.When the Going was GoodandThe Loved OneprecededMen at Arms, which came out in 1952, the first volume of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The other volumes,Officers and GentlemenandUnconditional Surrender, followed in 1955 and 1961. In 1964 he published his last book,A Little Learning, the first volume of an autobiography. Evelyn Waugh was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1930 and his biography of the Elizabethan Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1936. In 1959 he published the official Life of Ronald Knox. For many years he lived with his wife and six children in the West Country. He died in 1966.