num_pages: 321
description: In "Scoop, " surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure, " Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism an how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
language: English
title: Scoop
titlecomplete: Scoop
characters: William Boot, John Courtney Boot, Mr Salter
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Humor, Classics, British Literature, Comedy, Africa, Journalism, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 20249
places: London, England, Ishmaelia
publisher: Back Bay Books