description: (Book Jacket Jacketed)In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waughâ€s birth, four of the masterâ€s most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume.Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischievousâ€“inventing a politically loopy African state as a means of pulverizing politics at home. In Scoop , it is journalismâ€s turn to be drawn and quartered. The Loved One (which became a famously hilarious film) sends up the California mortuary business. And The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a burst of fictionalized autobiography in which Pinfold goes mad, more or less, on board an ocean liner.Here in four shortâ€“very differentâ€“novels are the mordant wit, inspired farce, snapping dialogue, and amazing characters that are the essence of everything Waugh ever wrote.
language: English
title: Black Mischief ; Scoop ; The Loved One ; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
titlecomplete: Black Mischief ; Scoop ; The Loved One ; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
genres: Fiction, Humor, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 70
publisher: Everyman's Library