Officers and Gentlemen (Paperback)
| Author: Evelyn Waugh |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
ISBN-10: 0316926302
ISBN-13: 9780316926300
Sku: 30048490
Publish Date: 7/25/2011
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(in Inches) 7.5H x 5.5L x 0.5T
Pages:
352
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| This is the second volume in the 'Sword of Honor' trilogy. The other volumes in this trilogy include: 'Men at Arms' and 'The End of the Battle'. |
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This is the second volume in the 'Sword of Honor' trilogy. The other volumes in this trilogy include: 'Men at Arms' and 'The End of the Battle'.Guy Crouchback experiences personal triumphs and difficulties while serving in the British army during World War II |
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The first volume of the author's "Sword of Honor" trilogy, which also includes OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN and THE END OF THE BATTLE. It portrays the events of the Second World War as seen through the jaded and melancholy eyes of Guy Crouchback, a middle-aged civilian who joins the Halberdiers, a venerable British army regiment, at the start of the fighting.
The first volume of the author's "Sword of Honor" trilogy, which also includes OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN and THE END OF THE BATTLE. It portrays the events of the Second World War as seen through the jaded and melancholy eyes of Guy Crouchback, a middle-aged civilian who joins the Halberdiers, a venerable British army regiment, at the start of the fighting.
Author Bio
Evelyn Waugh
Educated at Oxford, Waugh worked as a schoolteacher--a job he loathed--until his first novel, DECLINE AND FALL, was published in 1928. He served in the Royal Marines in World War II, stationed in Crete and Yugoslavia, the setting for his trilogy, "Sword of Honor". In 1930 he converted to Roman Catholicism; his "Catholic" novel, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, was published in 1945. In addition to novels, Waugh also wrote nonfiction, particularly on travel. He was married twice, and was a neglectful father to several children. He spent the end of his life in the village of Combe Florey, in Somerset and died, after going to Mass, on Easter Sunday, 1966. Waugh was an often irascible, curmudgeonly personality, but his brilliantly comic satirical fiction, dissecting the British upper classes, has been not only critically acclaimed but wildly popular; the dramatization of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by the BBC was watched fanatically by millions.
Praise
New York Times
"Some novelists deal with life as it is; others caricature it in comedy and satire. Evelyn Waugh started out a novelist of the second type, but . . . he has been showing signs of developing into a more serious and realistic writer. He has never quite made it, however, so that his latest novel, OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN, is something of a mixture." 1955 Atlantic Monthly
"...SWORD OF HONOR [is] his masterpiece." - Penelope Lively February 2001
"Some novelists deal with life as it is; others caricature it in comedy and satire. Evelyn Waugh started out a novelist of the second type, but . . . he has been showing signs of developing into a more serious and realistic writer. He has never quite made it, however, so that his latest novel, OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN, is something of a mixture." 1955 Atlantic Monthly
"...SWORD OF HONOR [is] his masterpiece." - Penelope Lively February 2001
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