28 results for '"Evelyn Waugh"'

An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics anthology of stories that testify to the irresistible power of the written word The characters in the delightful stories...

"John Richardson's riveting memoir about growing up in England and, at twenty-five, beginning his twelve-year adventure with the controversial art collector Douglas Cooper. With a new introduction by...

From the prolifically gifted Pamela Hansford Johnson, neglected peer of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, comes "a maliciously witty account of literary skulduggery and lofty pretensions, set in...

A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky...

Very Good in a Good dust jacket. First U.S. Book Club Edition, which preceded the trade edition and is thus, unusually, the true American first. Octavo, ~5 ¼” w x 7 ¾” h,...

Now, more than ever, political journalists are central figures in the titanic struggles of modern history, not only telling us about events but also interpreting them and shaping our views. This...

For writers Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic “hall of mirrors,” Aldous Huxley a “city of dreadful joy.”...

American literature has known few writers capable of the comic élan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell’s work was out of...