Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh

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Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh

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What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? This title shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times.

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Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh

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' The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London 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.
a wicked satire in the well-known Waugh manner * The New York Times *
a novel of breathtaking symmetry, grace, craft, and discipline -- LE. Sissman * The Atlantic *
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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ISBN 13 9780141184012
ISBN 10 0141184019
Title Put Out More Flags
Author Evelyn Waugh
Series Penguin Modern Classics
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2000-05-04
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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