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Set in england between the wars, the novel examines the frenetic but empty lives of the bright young things, young people who indulge in constant partygoing, heavy drinking, and promiscuous sex. Download and enjoy your favorite evelyn waugh audiobooks instantly today to your mobile phone, tablet, laptop or desktop at. It provides a thorough exploration of the novels plot, characters and main themes, such as journalism. Sent down from oxford after a wild, drunken party, paul pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys private school in wales. Scoop by evelyn waugh audiobook extract by hachette. It was first published in 1938 and recounts the tale of british foreign correspondents reporting on a civil war from the fictional east african country of ishmaelia. So begins scoop, waugh s exuberant comedy of mistaken identity and brilliantly irreverent satire of the hectic pursuit of hot news. Books by evelyn waugh 8 books calibre audio library. Scoop is a muchadmired satirical novel by evelyn waugh, widely held to be a comedic literary classic. A handful of dust is set in 1930s victorian england, and focuses on the. The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in evelyn waugh s masterpiece an audiobook that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of english aristocracy in the waning days of. In scoop, surreptitiously dubbed a newspaper adventure, waugh flays fleet street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how william boot became the star of british superjournalism and how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely katchen, he returned from ishmaelia to london as the dailys beasts more accoladed overseas reporter.

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