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Click to view full description | 1. | WAUGH, Evelyn Handful of Dust, A
Boston Little, Brown & Company c1934,1977 Hardcover; Book Club Edition Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper
308 pages; Spine ends faintly bumped, pages pale yellow. A bit of residue from old price sticker on front free endpaper and a slight darkening at gutter on front free endpaper. Dust wrapper, with sunned spine, is very lightly edgeworn and has faint soil.; The gentle satire of this book's opening lulls you into believing it will be a light read. Tony Last's lifestyle at the Hetton estate and that of his wife is absorbing, even though you might not want to live their rich, empty lives. But Waugh has some shocking surprises in store. Without giving away any of the plot, you will never feel the same about re-reading Dickens...A very well-written satiric novel. It was recently selected by 'Time Magazine' as one of the one hundred best English-language novels written from 1923 to the present. Basis for the movie of the same name starring James Wilby and Kristin Scott Thomas.
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| 2. | WAUGH, Evelyn Loved One, The : An Anglo-American Tragedy
Boston Little, Brown & Company c1948,1977 Hardcover; Book Club Edition Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper
164 pages; Spine ends faintly bumped, pages pale yellow. A bit of residue from old price sticker on front free endpaper and a slight darkening at gutter on front and rear endpaper. Dust wrapper, with sunned spine, is very lightly edgeworn, has faint soil and has one tiny closed tear ar spine gutter. ; The author dedicated this satiric look on the commercialization of death to Nancy Mitford. It features a pet cemetary, a full-service Hollywood funeral home, and the romance of an embalmer and a crematorium cosmetician and a young English poet named Dennis Barlow. The author warns that this is a nightmare and somewhat gruesome in parts...
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| 3. | WAUGH, Evelyn Put Out More Flags
Boston Little, Brown & Company c1942,1977 Hardcover; Book Club Edition Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper
286 pages; Spine ends bumped and just beginning to fray at spine head, black cloth binding and pages clean, a bit of residue on front endpaper from old price sticker. Pages pale yellow, one page creased. Dust wrapper is lightly edgeworn and has a sunned spine.; The author's satirical eye turns to ''smart'' England, the Bohemian crowd, and Colonel Blimp as World War II begins.
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| 4. | WAUGH, Evelyn (Donat Gallagher, ed.) Little Order, A : A Selection from his Journalism
Boston Little, Brown & Company 1977 First US Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good- dust wrapper
192 pages; Lovely red cloth binding has lightly bumped and smudged spine ends. White unclipped dust wrapper has yellowed and has a bit of edgewear and light soil. A two inch closed tear at spine head has been repaired with archival tape.; ''During most of his career as a writer, Waugh had to supplement his earnings from novels and travel books with journalism. This book dislpays the full range of his journalistic essays, from the 'beastly little articles' of the early years to the notorious satires and 'serious work' of subsequent decades.''
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