Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called 'one of the century's great masters of English prose,' wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.
~~tag-text~~
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this 'absolutely delightful' novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World W... SEE MORE