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Put Out More Flags
Evelyn Waugh
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Description for Put Out More Flags
Paperback. What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? This title shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'
The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London
What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? Put Out More Flags shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times. Some of them play a valorous part; others, like the scapegrace Basil Sea, disclose their incorrigible habit of self-preservation in all circumstances. Basil's contribution to the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141184012
SKU
V9780141184012
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About Evelyn Waugh
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Put Out More Flags
a wicked satire in the well-known Waugh manner
The New York Times
a novel of breathtaking symmetry, grace, craft, and discipline
L. E. Sissman
The Atlantic
The New York Times
a novel of breathtaking symmetry, grace, craft, and discipline
L. E. Sissman
The Atlantic