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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 the Paperback edition.
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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 the Paperback edition.
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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 the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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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 the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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