Evelyn Waugh: Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal Of Gilbert Pinfold
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Жанр : Random House Inc.
Издательство : Random House, Inc.
Год издания : 2003
Аннотация:
Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischievous — inventing a politically loopy African state as a means of pulverizing politics at home. In Scoop, it is journalism’s turn to be drawn and quartered. The Loved One (which became a famously hilarious film) sends up the California mortuary business. And The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a burst of fictionalized autobiography in which Pinfold goes mad, more or less, on board an ocean liner. Here in four short — very different — novels are the mordant wit, inspired farce, snapping dialogue, and amazing characters that are the essence of everything Waugh ever wrote.