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Waugh in Abyssinia (10) - Evelyn Waugh

Waugh in Abyssinia (10)

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Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2011
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-119361-8 (ISBN)
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In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and the author was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. This title captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.
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 rubbing shoulders with less than honest officials, Arab spies, pyjama-wearing radicals and disgruntled journalists. Witty, lucid and penetrating, Evelyn Waugh captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and 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). Waugh travelled extensively and also wrote several travel books, as well as a biography of Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox. Other famous works include his Sword of Honour trilogy, and Brideshead Revisited (1945).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.9.2011
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 124 x 195 mm
Gewicht 328 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Afrika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-14-119361-1 / 0141193611
ISBN-13 978-0-14-119361-8 / 9780141193618
Zustand Neuware
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