Description
Evelyn Waugh's acclaimed World War II trilogy comprises the three acclaimed novels Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender.
This narrative spanning the war, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war overwhelming. Though often somber, Sword of Honor is also a brilliant comedy, peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh's early satires. 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.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 12/11/2012
Pages: 800
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9780316216692
ISBN10: 0316216690
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | War & Military
This narrative spanning the war, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war overwhelming. Though often somber, Sword of Honor is also a brilliant comedy, peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh's early satires. 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.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 12/11/2012
Pages: 800
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9780316216692
ISBN10: 0316216690
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | War & Military
About the Author
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.