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by Evelyn Waugh (Author) "It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (29 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141184507
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141184500
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 308,628 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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AN INABILITY TO CONTROL HIS FANTASIES SENDS GILBERT PINFOLD, A WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR, CRUISING ON A CEYLON-BOUND LINER TO RECUPERATE. BUT TO HIS HORROR THE HALLUCINATIONS INCREASE AND LIFE ON BOARD BECOMES VERY EMBARRASSING. THIS CURIOUS AND DIVERTING NOVEL THROWS NEW LIGHT ON EVELYN WAUGH'S REMARKABLE TALENT. NB: THIS NEW EDITION WILL NOT INCLUDE THE TWO SHORT STORIES IN THE EARLIER EDITION (182500). FOR THE TIME BEING THERE ARE NO PLANS TO REPUBLISH "TACTICAL EXERCISE" AND "LOVE AMONG THE RUINS" THOUGH THEY MIGHT AT SOME STAGE BE INCLUDEDIN A NEW VOLUME OF EVELYN WAUGH'S SHORT STORIES (JS 16/5/97).


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Also by Ronald Harwood, Amber Lane Press have published his biography Sir Donald Wolfit - His Life and Work in the Unfashionable Theatre, and the plays After the Lions, Another Time, The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest, The Dresser, Interpreters, J.J. Farr, Tramway Road, and an English version of Chekhov's Ivanov. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Tedious, 13 Sep 2008
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I've been reading for 50 years what a great novel this is, so I thought I'd better get to it. It relates an (autobiographical, they say) description of a man suffering from extreme paranoia as the result of overindulgence in pharmaceutical remedies and alcohol. Think "delirium tremens". He is stuck on a sea voyage, and a group of imagined devils is persecuting him.

But the details of his illness go on for what seem endless pages, episode after episode, at least 30% more than necessary - and this is a short novel. I kept reading out of curiosity about what would happen in the end. Nothing. He goes back home.

His publisher should have trimmed it, presented it as a long short story in the form of a novelette. But Waugh, an excellent writer when in good form, was a nasty piece of work, and not to be toyed with.

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