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Upperclass scoundrel basil seal, mad, bad, and dangerous to know, creates havoc wherever he goes, much to the despair of the three women in his life. John waugh 28 october 1903 10 april 1966 was an english writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as decline and fall, vile bodies, scoop, a handful of dust. Guy crouchback is a largely autobiographical character whose personality and past reflect evelyn waugh. Men at arms book one of the sword of honour trilogy pdf free. Waugh reworked the novels and published them collectively in one volume as sword of honour in 1965. The three novels of evelyn waugh s sword of honor trilogy of war novels, called the finest work of fiction in english to emerge from world war ii the atlantic, collected in one volume. Men at arms is the first book in waughs brilliant trilogy, sword of honour, which chronicles the fortunes of guy crouchback. The absurdities of the british class structure, the vagaries of war, the frequency of human folly and the limits of virtue and of moral constancy in a world that values neither very muchthese are the foundations of this rambling epic novel that covers the war.
Dec 11, 2012 the sword of honour trilogy written as a trilogy by waugh in an effort to maximise his income from one long novel was distilled by the author into a one volume novel in 1965. The deepest pleasures these novels afford come from observing a. If youre interested in reading the trilogy, you really should read this version, as the book is really one long, continuous story with the same characters throughout, and some apparently tedious passages have been edited out. Pdf sword of honour download full pdf book download.
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