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Waugh, Evelyn Sword of Honour
Boston Little, Brown & Company 1961 First Edition
Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Red boards. The spine is stamped in gilt; the front board in blind. 796pps. Stated First American Edition. There is dustspotting atop the textblock and and a couple of faint soilmarks to the fore-edge. Also, the front hinge is cracked with the webbing (unaffected) showing top to bottom; there are no other flaws or separations in the binding, which is stable with all pages intact. The text is clean and bright: no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has quite shallow chipping at the tips and the spine-ends as well as a couple of creases at the bottom of the front panel. The original price is intact. This omnibus is the final version of the novels: 'Men At Arms' (1952), 'Officers And Gentlemen' (1955), and 'The End of The Battle' (1962).
"...The three books of which this is a recension, appeared at intervals throughout a decade with the less than candid assurance (dictated by commercial interest) that each was to be regarded as a separate, independent work. It was unreasonable to expect the reader to keep in mind the various characters; still more to follow a continuous, continued plot. Repetitions and discrepancies occured, which, I hope, are here excised. I have also removed passages which, on re-reading, appeared tedious.
The product is intended (as it was originally) to be read as a single story. I sought to give a description of the Second World War as it was seen and experienced by a single, uncharacteristic Englishman, and to show its effects on him. For this purpose I invented three clowns who have prominent parts in the structure of this story, but not in its theme..." -- From the author's Preface.
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Waugh, Evelyn The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
New York, NY, U.S.A. Little, Brown & Company 1999 0-316-92546-2 / 9780316925464 First Edition Advanced Reading Copy (ARC)
Uncorrected Proofs. As New and unread in pale green cardstock wraps. 536pps. Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
"...For the first time, all of Evelyn Waugh's stories -- thirty-nine marvelous works of short fiction spanning his entire career -- are brought together in a single volume. The stories range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to one in which Waugh suggests an alternative ending to his novel 'A Handful of Dust'; from a 'missing chapter' in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of Brideshead Revisited, to two long, linked stories, remnants of an abandoned novel that Waugh himself considered 'my best writing'; from a plot-packed morality role that Waugh composed at a very tender age to an epistolary lark in the voice of 'a young lady of leisure'; from a hilarious fantasy about newlyweds to a darkly comic tale of scandal in a remote (and imaginary) African outpost..."
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24.90 USD
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