Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh’s career. 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, bu...(展开全部)

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)

He should never have opened the envelope ...Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the results can only be pitiful. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave - except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter Adam fears can only bring further disgrace to the family name. Against his mother's wishes, Adam opens the letter, and immediately real...(展开全部)

Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation. During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from mal...(展开全部)

“我感到喉咙里传来一阵温暖的刺痛声，然后我意识到了可怕的事实，这让我心寒，血液在我的大脑中涌动。” 在布莱姆·斯托克知名小说十七年后出版的这篇引人入胜的文学片段中，一位前往德国南部的英国游客在瓦尔普吉斯之夜遭受了可怕的磨难：根据当地传统，超自然恐怖在这一天的夜晚被释放到地球上。 但也许让人不寒而栗的是一封神秘电报的出现，声称要保证英国人的安全，这是某个“德古拉”发出的电报…… “I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth, which chilled me to the heart and sent the blood surging up through my brain.” In this intriguing literary ...(展开全部)

Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation. During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from mal...(展开全部)

“我感到喉咙里传来一阵温暖的刺痛声，然后我意识到了可怕的事实，这让我心寒，血液在我的大脑中涌动。” 在布莱姆·斯托克知名小说十七年后出版的这篇引人入胜的文学片段中，一位前往德国南部的英国游客在瓦尔普吉斯之夜遭受了可怕的磨难：根据当地传统，超自然恐怖在这一天的夜晚被释放到地球上。 但也许让人不寒而栗的是一封神秘电报的出现，声称要保证英国人的安全，这是某个“德古拉”发出的电报…… “I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth, which chilled me to the heart and sent the blood surging up through my brain.” In this intriguing literary ...(展开全部)