Evelyn Waugh

Broschiertes Buch

Sword of Honour

Beschreibung

Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman is commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of his war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, he discovers not heroism, but humanity.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 813243
• Seitenzahl: 928
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780141184975
• ISBN-10: 0141184973
• Artikelnr.: 21787670