The deepest pleasures these novels afford come from observing a great satiric writer employ his gifts with extraordinary subtlety, delicacy, and human feeling, for purposes that are ultimately anything but satiric.

黒い笑い、皮肉、風刺、狂気、不倫など、作家の真髄が光る十五作品を独自に厳選。本邦初訳四篇ほかすべて新訳。自筆の挿絵六点掲載。

Waugh's sharp writing and insightful commentary make this novel a must-read for anyone interested in the psychological and moral challenges faced by individuals in times of conflict.

Men at Arms is the first novel in Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback ("the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II" --Atlantic Monthly), which also ...

Rather than representing an ill-advised departure from his true calling as an iconoclastic satirist, DeCoste suggests, these novels form a cohesive, artful whole precisely as they explore the extent to which the writer’s and the ...

The first part of the Sword of Honour Trilogy, inspired by the author's experiences in World War II.Guy Crouchback, the youngest member of a declining British aristocratic family, is on self-imposed exile in Italy, ashamed of his failed ...

The deepest pleasures these novels afford come from observing a great satiric writer employ his gifts with extraordinary subtlety, delicacy, and human feeling, for purposes that are ultimately anything but satiric.

In 'Put Out More Flags' by Evelyn Waugh, the reader is transported to England during the early stages of World War II. This satirical novel presents a unique blend of humor and poignant reflection on the effects of war on individual lives.

In the Picture traces Waugh’s experiences, both vivid and mundane, with a completeness never before attempted and shows how they come alive in Sword of Honour.

However different they may seem, these two towering figures of twentieth-century literature are linked for the first time in this engaging and unconventional biography, which goes beyond the story of their amazing lives to reach the core of ...