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A Mediterranean Journal

Evelyn Waugh

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English
Penguin Classics
24 June 1999
Evelyn Waugh chose the name \""Labels\"" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already \""fully labelled\"" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit. From Europe to the Middle East and North Africa, from Egyptian porters and Italian priests to Maltese sailors and Moroccan merchants - as he cruises around the Mediterranean his pen cuts through the local colour to give an entertaining portrait of the Englishman abroad.
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   199
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   214g
ISBN:   9780140188370
ISBN 10:   0140188371
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   288
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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