Waugh Evelyn

Błyskotliwy pisarz, zaliczany do najznakomitszych prozaików brytyjskich XX w., ceniony za cięte pióro i zmysł satyryczny, w latach 1930?1931 przemierzał Afrykę jako korespondent ?Timesa?. Mamy tu całą galerię postaci ? ekscentrycznych kolonizatorów, sprytnych arabskich handlarzy, zakonników niosących Słowo Boże ? opisanych brawurowo, z iście...

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. But he also discovers a world which threatens to destroy his beloved Sebastian....

After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of...

'The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London.'Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'....

In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 'twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party...