In SCOOP, surreptitiously dubbed a "newspaper adventure," Evelyn Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondents. He tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving the part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaeilia to London as the Daily Beast's most accoladed overseas reporter. ...(展开全部)

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising l...(展开全部)

本书的创作灵感来源于伊夫林•沃在阿尔巴尼亚担任战地记者时的工作经历。小说的男主人公威廉•布特是《野兽日报》的一名专栏作家，远离伦敦，隐居乡间，过着与世无争的平静生活。报纸的老板科珀勋爵将威廉•布特误当成了急于逃离伦敦生活的当红小说家约翰•布特，威廉在阴差阳错之下被派往了虚构的东非国家以实马利亚，以战地记者的身份去报道那里一触即发的内战。此电子书版本为全英文版。

In SCOOP, surreptitiously dubbed a "newspaper adventure," Evelyn Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war co rrespondents. He tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving the part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaeilia to London as the Daily Beast's most accoladed overseas reporter. ...(展开全部)

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising l...(展开全部)