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Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr by Evelyn Waugh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to the man he revered as a poet, scholar, hero and mart ...Show more
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier c ...Show more
Scoop: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch ...Show more
The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Biography / Memoir
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 Knox - priest, classicist, prolific writer and one of the outstanding men of letters of his time. The renowned Oxford chaplain was a friend of figures su ...Show more
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction | Series: modern classics
An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. But to his horror the hallucinations increase and life on board becomes very embarrassing.
The Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of his war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, h ...Show more
Unconditional Surrender by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Fiction
Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour.
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