Evelyn Waugh
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A Handful of Dust
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Evelyn Waugh
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2013
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PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ
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After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars, The breakdown of the Last marriage, is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce and a symbol of the disintegration of society.
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14 июля 2014
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Scoop: A Novel About Journalists
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Evelyn Waugh
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2000
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PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ
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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, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news.
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21 июля 2009
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Vile Bodies
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Evelyn Waugh
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2008
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PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ
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The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the hedonistic fulfilment of their desires. Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and experimental satire shows a new generation emerging in the years after the First World War, revealing the darkness and vulnerability beneath the glittering surface of the high life.
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lawyer_78rus
26 мая 2011
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Decline and Fall
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Evelyn Waugh
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2003
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PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ
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Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, 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, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no-one is safe, least of all Paul.
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allkonekt
08 марта 2009
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Black Mischief
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Evelyn Waugh
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2000
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PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ
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'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way'. When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with the aid if Minister of Modernization Basil Seal, Seth plans to introduce his people to the civilized ways of the west — but will it be as simple as that?
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21 июля 2009
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Labels
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Evelyn Waugh
Издательство: Penguin Group, 1999
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PDF, 176 страниц, 5.28 МБ
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«Evelyn Waugh chose the name «Labels» for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already «fully labelled» in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit. From Europe to the Middle East and North Africa, from Egyptian porters and Italian priests to Maltese sailors and Moroccan merchants — as he cruises around the Mediterranean his pen cuts through the local colour to give an entertaining portrait of the Englishman abroad.»
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kubinec12
11 августа 2009
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Oxford Bookworms Library 6: Decline and Fall
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Oxford University Press
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Автор: Evelyn Waugh
Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2008
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DOC, 12 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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After a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is forced to leave Oxford and begin a new life out in the wide world. His experiences take him from a boys' private school in Wales, where he meets some rather strange people, to a life of luxury in a grand country house and the Ritz Hotel, and then to seven years' hard labour in prison. Where will it all end? The black humour of this story about English society in the 1920s is as fresh today as it was when the novel was first written.
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zefon
14 августа 2010
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