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Put Out More Flags

Evelyn Waugh Nigel Spivey

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English
Penguin Classics
21 September 2000
Evelyn Waugh's hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'

What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? Put Out More Flags shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times. Some of them play a valorous part; others, like the scapegrace Basil Sea, disclose their incorrigible habit of self-preservation in all circumstances. Basil's contribution to the war effort involves the use of his peculiar talents in such spheres of opportunity as the Ministry of Information and an obscure section of Military Security - adventures which incite Evelyn Waugh to another pungent satire upon the coteries of Mayfair.
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   202
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   225g
ISBN:   9780141184012
ISBN 10:   0141184019
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   304
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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.

Reviews for Put Out More Flags

a wicked satire in the well-known Waugh manner * The New York Times * a novel of breathtaking symmetry, grace, craft, and discipline -- L. E. Sissman * The Atlantic *


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