Waugh in Abyssinia
$45.17
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2019
Summary
A witty account of Waugh’s time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent.
In 1935, Italy declared war on Abyssinia, and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent. He recounts rubbing shoulders with less-than-honest officials, Arab spies, pyjama-wearing radicals, and disgrunt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185057 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141185058 |
| Author: | Evelyn Waugh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.
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