Description
Product ID: | 9780141182933 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Title: | A Little Order |
Subtitle: | Selected Journalism |
Authors: | Author: Evelyn Waugh |
Page Count: | 208 |
Subjects: | Diaries, letters and journals, Diaries, letters & journals, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, English |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Explores the author's Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P G Wodehouse to Graham Greene) and the perils of basing fictional characters on real people. Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to ''come inside'' the Catholic Church or expressing his contempt for modish Marxism and American-style religion, Evelyn Waugh''s journalism is sparkling, sometimes vitriolic and always full of good sense. In this wonderful selection he explores his Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P. G. Wodehouse to Graham Greene) and the perils of basing fictional characters on real people. Decades after their publication, these pieces still retain their capacity to delight, to surprise and to shock. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2000-04-06 |