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Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always ...Show more
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh; David Bradshaw (Editor, Foreword by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always ...Show more
Decline and Fall (HB) by Evelyn Waugh
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, now in a wonderful new hardback editionSent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools ...Show more
Labels by Evelyn Waugh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design. Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already 'fully lab ...Show more
Letters of Evelyn Waugh by WAUGH Evelyn
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
The dazzling letters of one of our finest novelists - reissued in Phoenix paperback.
Remote People by Evelyn Waugh
$22.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, "Remote People" begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered by Evelyn Waugh in 1930 as special correspondent for "The Times". It continues with subsequent travels throughout Africa ...Show more
Scoop (HB) by Evelyn Waugh
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics
The best satire of journalism ever written, now in a wonderful new hardback editionLord 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 mome ...Show more
Scoop: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
$13.00 AUD
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
Scoop: a Novel About Journalists (Evelyn Waugh Centenary Edition) by Evelyn Waugh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 weakens make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip form Mrs Algernon Stitch h ...Show more
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Evelyn Waugh's masterful depiction of World War II, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Martin StannardWaugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Hal ...Show more
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
Evelyn Waugh kept a diary almost continuously from the age of seven until a year before his death in 1966. Extracts from the diaries caused sensation when they were published by the 'Observer'. They are a unique literary document of 300,000 words which provide the background to the novels which made Wau ...Show more
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh; Nancy Mitford
$29.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley 'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'Independent on SundayNancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters o ...Show more