Evelyn Waugh Libros

El retorno de Charles Ryder a Brideshead —la elegante mansión de lord Marchmain, convertida ahora en cuartel— devuelve a su memoria aquellos tiempos, anteriores a la guerra, en que paseaba embelesado por sus hermosos jardines y salones y se dejaba sucumbir al hechizo de sus singulares habitantes. En realidad, nunca pudo Charles librarse de su ambigua amistad con el inquieto Sebastian, ni de su obsesivo amor por la hermana de éste, lady Julia, ni de la oscura y contradictoria fatalidad que dejó marcada para siempre la atribulada vida de los Marchmain con su huella de drama y desvarío. Retorno a Brideshead , una de las novelas más importantes de la aclamada obra del célebre escritor inglés, fue motivo de una espléndida serie televisiva, interpretada entre otros, por Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom y Stépahne Audran, que obtuvo un enorme éxito mundial.

Leí ¡Noticia bomba! por el que podríamos denominar camino natural del lector de humor. Desde Mi tío Oswald, de Roald Dahl, hasta las historias de Jeeves escritas por Wodehouse, antes de confluir en Tom Sharpe, Jonathan Coe o Nick Hornby, había ido siguiendo ese gusto anglosajón por las historias centradas en un personaje inocente, idiota o aburrido que, siendo gracioso sin saberlo, se encuentra en mitad de una situación que no controla o no comprende. En el caso de Evelyn Waugh, una confusión de identidad provoca que William Boot sea enviado como reportero a un país del África nororiental sumido en la guerra civil. A pesar de no haber salido apenas de la casa familiar en la campiña inglesa, el joven se prepara para abrirse camino en la jungla, orientarse entre las dunas del desierto o sobrevivir a cualquier catarata. Sin embargo, acabará con otros periodistas en el bar de un hotel, espantando moscas e inventando historias que puedan ser la noticia bomba que justifique sus gastos. En esta novela, con el ritmo de una carrera de cien metros lisos, la trama parece salida de la imaginación de Billy Wilder y los diálogos de la pluma de los hermanos Marx. Podría hablar de las metáforas, de los tropos o de su crítica implícita al romanticismo o al colonialismo, pero eso traicionaría el espíritu de una obra que, ante todo, no aburre, ni en una coma, al lector. Aldo García Librería Machado Ilustración de cubierta José Luis Merino

These stories have all Waugh's characteristically brilliant, savage wit and reproduce his unmistakable world in miniature. They also constitute a vital supplement to the major novels, while being significant works in their own right

Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman is commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of his war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, he discovers not heroism, but humanity.

(Book Jacket Jacketed)In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth, four of the master’s most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume.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.

Evelyn Waugh was a loving Husband, a wise and affectionate father and the funniest English novelist of the century. This selection of letters does full justice to these splendid attribute's " Phillip Toynbee.

A "lavishly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) distillation of Waugh's genius--abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century's most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form. Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust; from a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of Brideshead Revisited, to a plot-packed morality tale that Waugh composed at a very tender age; from an epistolary lark in the voice of "a young lady of leisure" to a darkly comic tale of scandal in a remote (and imaginary) African outpost.

Ronald Knox - priest, classicist, prolific writer and one of the outstanding men of letters of his time. The renowned Oxford chaplain was a friend of figures such as G K Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, and was known for his caustic wit and spiritual wisdom. This title presents his portrait.