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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £25.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £35.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £35.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
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A Long Walk to Water
- £8.00
- A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hoursÕ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the…
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A Tourist in Africa
- £30.00
- The book is in the form of a diary, describing a tour of East Africa from January to April 1959. Events and sights are described with perception and clarity, and the history associated with a particular place is often discussed.
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Black Mischief
- £35.00
- 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…
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Black Mischief
- £30.00
- 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…
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Black Mischief
- £16.00
- 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…
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- £45.00
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
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Evelyn Waugh (2 vols): The Early Years 1903-1939; No Abiding City 1939-1966
- £100.00
- Martin Stannard's acclaimed 2-part biography of Evelyn Waugh. The fullest account of the author yet published, rejecting the stereotyped image of Waugh and revealing a more complex and serious artist behind the malicious clowning.
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Evelyn! Rhapsody for an obsessive love
- £16.00
- This unconventional biography runs through Evelyn Waugh's life to show how painful and embarrassing events fed into his novels, notably his love for the woman who shared his Christian name: Evelyn Gardner, or "She-Evelyn". In prose that echoes its subjectÛs irreverent wit, Duncan McLaren brings in his own experiences, from…
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Helena
- £15.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £35.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £25.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £15.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £35.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Helena
- £17.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
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Horizon: (Vol XVII, No. 98) The Loved One, By Evelyn Waugh
- £45.00
- The first appearance of Waugh's satire on the ''American way of Death''. In Horizon magazine (pp. 76-159) edited by Cyril Connolly. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely…
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Labels, A Mediterranean Journey
- £50.00
- Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit.…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £70.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
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Men at Arms
- £13.00
- Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's Sword of Honour series, the author's look at the Second World War. The novels loosely parallel Waugh's wartime experiences. Waugh received the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Men at Arms.
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Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
- £40.00
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour was written by Robert Smith Surtees, he is an English novelist and sporting writer. The Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, whom was in the business as a solicitor, but he is not success, started since 1831 for the Sporting Magazine. Then he took to…
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Ninety-Two Days, the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil
- £75.00
- The great author's account of the journey that gave birth to his novel 'A Handful of Dust' makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian's reviewer found it 'exquisitely miserable'. Multiple photographs and map by…
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Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars
- £15.00
- Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won…
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Put Out More Flags
- £20.00
- Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'. The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London. What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and…
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Rossetti His Life and Works
- £250.00
- Rossetti was Evelyn Waugh's first published book. It details the life and works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Waugh naturally offers his own critique of this magnanimous Victorian pre-raphelite. 8 b/w plates.
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A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £25.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
- Add to basket
-
A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £35.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
- Add to basket
-
A Little Learning: 1st volume of an autobiography
- £35.00
- From the flap: treats of Mr Waugh's family and childhood; and of his education at Lancing and Oxford, which is associated by so many readers with 'Brideshead Revisited'. It ends with an account of his experiences as a schoolmaster at a private school in North Wales. Many b/w illustrations &…
- Add to basket
-
A Long Walk to Water
- £8.00
- A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hoursÕ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the…
- Add to basket
-
A Tourist in Africa
- £30.00
- The book is in the form of a diary, describing a tour of East Africa from January to April 1959. Events and sights are described with perception and clarity, and the history associated with a particular place is often discussed.
- Add to basket
-
Black Mischief
- £35.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
-
Black Mischief
- £30.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
-
Black Mischief
- £16.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
- Add to basket
-
Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
- Add to basket
-
Decline and Fall, an illustrated novelette
- £45.00
- Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just…
- Add to basket
-
Evelyn Waugh (2 vols): The Early Years 1903-1939; No Abiding City 1939-1966
- £100.00
- Martin Stannard's acclaimed 2-part biography of Evelyn Waugh. The fullest account of the author yet published, rejecting the stereotyped image of Waugh and revealing a more complex and serious artist behind the malicious clowning.
- Add to basket
-
Evelyn! Rhapsody for an obsessive love
- £16.00
- This unconventional biography runs through Evelyn Waugh's life to show how painful and embarrassing events fed into his novels, notably his love for the woman who shared his Christian name: Evelyn Gardner, or "She-Evelyn". In prose that echoes its subjectÛs irreverent wit, Duncan McLaren brings in his own experiences, from…
- Add to basket
-
Helena
- £15.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
- Add to basket
-
Helena
- £35.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
- Add to basket
-
Helena
- £25.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
- Add to basket
-
Helena
- £15.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
- Add to basket
-
Helena
- £35.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
- Add to basket
-
Helena
- £17.00
- Waugh's only historical novel, set in Roman times; it follows the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In the preface Waugh writes: "The reader may reasonably inquire:…
- Add to basket
-
Horizon: (Vol XVII, No. 98) The Loved One, By Evelyn Waugh
- £45.00
- The first appearance of Waugh's satire on the ''American way of Death''. In Horizon magazine (pp. 76-159) edited by Cyril Connolly. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. "... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely…
- Add to basket
-
Labels, A Mediterranean Journey
- £50.00
- Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit.…
- Add to basket
-
Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £70.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
- Add to basket
-
Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
- Add to basket
-
Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- £80.00
- A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably…
- Add to basket
-
Men at Arms
- £13.00
- Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's Sword of Honour series, the author's look at the Second World War. The novels loosely parallel Waugh's wartime experiences. Waugh received the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Men at Arms.
- Add to basket
-
Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
- £40.00
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour was written by Robert Smith Surtees, he is an English novelist and sporting writer. The Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, whom was in the business as a solicitor, but he is not success, started since 1831 for the Sporting Magazine. Then he took to…
- Add to basket
-
Ninety-Two Days, the account of a tropical journey through British Guiana and part of Brazil
- £75.00
- The great author's account of the journey that gave birth to his novel 'A Handful of Dust' makes gripping and often hilarious reading: he travels through Guyana and northern Brazil on foot, horseback and by boat in 1932. The Guardian's reviewer found it 'exquisitely miserable'. Multiple photographs and map by…
- Add to basket
-
Not far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars
- £15.00
- Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and women finally won…
- Add to basket
-
Put Out More Flags
- £20.00
- Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'. The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London. What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and…
- Add to basket
-
Rossetti His Life and Works
- £250.00
- Rossetti was Evelyn Waugh's first published book. It details the life and works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Waugh naturally offers his own critique of this magnanimous Victorian pre-raphelite. 8 b/w plates.
- Add to basket