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When the Going Was Good (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback – 27 Sept. 1990

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Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in 1930; his travels in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya and the Congo, coping with unbearable heat and plagued by mosquitoes; a journey to Guyana and Brazil; and his return to Addis Ababa in 1935 to report on the war between Abyssinia and Italy. Waugh's adventures on his travels gave him the ideas for such classic novels as Scoop and Black Mischief.

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27 Sept. 1990
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0140182535
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[a] humorous account of an agreeable young man's peregrinations in picturesque lands ― The New York Times

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Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics (27 Sept. 1990)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140182535
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140182538
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.98 x 20.32 cm

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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (/ˈɑːrθər ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən wɔː/; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966), known by his pen name Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–61).

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Another Good Book From Evelyn Waugh

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2017

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Evelyn Waugh is one of my favourite authors who has never disappointed me. This one was a new one for me and covers some of his records of trips abroad. Given the sort of problems we still get these days it is always amazing to see how people pulled off these trips years ago irrespective of their being there as journalists.

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Arturas Bacul

It's a great travel book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 September 2015

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It's a great travel book. More serious than the horrid novels from the airport, but at the same time easy to read.

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skimbleshanks

Birthday Present

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2014

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This was bought as a present and as far as I know the person was pleased with it as it was she wanted - a very good read - she is working her way through Twentieth Century Classics by Penguin - so will be ordering some more

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Terriss Davies

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2017

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All the work of Evelyn Waugh is very high standard.

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J. R. Collinson

given how much better it is

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2016

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if there was any justice in the world, this would be as popular a book as On The Road, given how much better it is.

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Eleanor Hamilton

5 star classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 September 2014

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The greatest writer of the 20th Century's greatest travel stories. A must read for anybody interested in where Waugh got some of his ideas.

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Stephen Bishop

Very good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 March 2022

This collection of Waugh's travel writings is for the most part excellent, illustrating his acute eye and gift for the English language. It is of its time, but he displays more liberality of mind than was normal then, although sometimes in blunter language than we are accustomed to. The writing on Africa and cruises is perhaps better than the section on Brazil, but the whole book is well worth reading.

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Lundie

fascinating and atmospheric

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2014

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A beautifully written travel book describing a world long vanished. The use of language brings both the characters and places alive

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Clarity Driven

Waugh is worth a read

Reviewed in the United States on 1 September 2014

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I am a Waugh fan to most of his books - some are really dated, as this one is - but it's a look back to an ordinary English upbringing that produced an extraordinary man. His Oxford years of drinking, drugs, homo- and hetero-sexual explorations might fit in with today's colleges but reading it as a long-ago history is more interesting. Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honor Trilogy, I think, are his best.

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Patrick Mc Coy

Intrepid Waugh

Reviewed in the United States on 13 January 2017

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I didn't know Evelyn Waugh was so intrepid-perhaps because he didn't use the travel material as much as his contemporary Graham Greene in his novels. In When The Going Was Good (1946) has parts of four travel books that Waugh wrote between 1929 and 1935. Chapter One "A Pleasure Cruise in 1929" from Labels, recounts a cruise, and the passengers are given much consideration, to Europe. Chapter two, "A Coronation in 1930" from Remote People, which recounts the coronation of Emperor (Abyssinia - now known as Ethiopia) Haile Selassie I, which Waugh reported on in 1930 as special correspondent for The Times. Chapter Three, "Globe-Trotting" also from Remote People, chronicles his travel elsewhere in Africa. Chapter Four, "A Journey to Brazil in 1932" from Ninety-two Days, is about his travels in Guiana and Brazil in South America-I was unaware of his travels here. Chapter Five "A War in 1935" from Waugh in Abyssinia, is about Waugh's exploits as a war correspondent in Abyssinia when war breaks out. Waugh used much of the African exploits in his early novel, Black Mischief (1932), and much of his writing in this book is quite charming and funny. However, he also makes some astute observations as well, for example:

To have traveled a lot, to have spent, as I have done, the first twelve years of adult life on the move, is to this extent a disadvantage. At the age of thirty-five one needs to go to the moon, or some such place, to recapture the excitement which one first landed at Calais.

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One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life. For myself and many better than me, there is a fascination in distant and barbarous places, and particularly int he borderlands of conflicting cultures and states of development, where ideas, uprooted form their traditions, become oddly changed in transplantation. It is there that I find the experiences vivid enough to demand translation in to literary form.

Another entertaining and enlightening read from one of my favorite writers.

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Laura

The best

Reviewed in the United States on 5 April 2013

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Got 15 books as a Christmas gift -all Evelyn Waugh. Trying to collect them all.. What can I say but a good read.

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Roger Gaess

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on 9 June 2015

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After all these years, still a very interesting read.

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CLASSIC

Reviewed in the United States on 22 August 2013

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FUNNY --TOUCHING --CLASSIC GOOD LITERATURE---- I T BROUGHT BROUGHT OFF THE WALL PLACES TO LIFE--- IT BROUGHT REAL CHARACTERS TOL IFE

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