- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Revised edition edition (24 April 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014018886X
- ISBN-13: 978-0140188868
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 236,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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After seven years of marriage, the Lady Brenda Last is bored with country life at Hetton Abbey. She drifts into an affair with shallow young socialite, John Beaver, and forsakes her unsuspecting husband as she becomes involved with the glamorous Belgravia set.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is excellent, Waugh's dry wit shines through and his observation of society and people is top notch. The plot concerning an old aristocratic family, whose fortune is on the wane is not new, but in this book Waugh explores the relationships between people and mocks the upper class behaviour of the inter war years. The fact that the hero imprisons himself in his aristocratic tomb, before becoming enforceably imprissoned in Brazil is a great joke and women, well this shows them... The book also reflects some of the hard times of the 1930's. First class and hilarious.
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Format:Paperback
Evelyn Waugh was a master of the dry, cruel, empathetic and funny; this, perhaps the ultimate "innocent Englishman abroad" novel, travels from between-wars infidelity to a bizarre Conrad parody, and is uneasily hilarious all the way. Highly recommended.
Format:Paperback
I had this book in my library but when a friend emigrated to Finland I gave him this book as a present. And of course I bought me a "new" one, this one. Great literature.
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