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11 de abr. de 2012 · The relationships are portrayed with compassion and honesty, and the author’s note at the end that explains Hoover’s personal connection to the subject matter is a must-read. Packed with riveting drama and painful truths, this book powerfully illustrates the devastation of abuse—and the strength of the survivors. 879.
Work Suspended And Other Stories Together With Scott King's Modern Europe by Waugh, Evelyn and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com.
Scott-King's Modern Europe has none of the horrific undertones of most dystopian novels of the period, including the relatively lighthearted Bend Sinister. In fact, Neutralia is best seen as a European version of the slapstick African regimes portrayed in earlier Waugh works like Black Mischief and Scoop, up to and including the European naifs caught up dealing with the local disfunctionality.
- Evelyn Waugh
‘Scott-King's Modern Europe' 1947 (US edition, 1949) By Martin Stannard. Book Evelyn Waugh. Click here to navigate to parent product. Edition 1st Edition. First ...
Work Suspended And Other Stories Together With Scott King's Modern Europe by Waugh, Evelyn and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com.
11 de fev. de 2014 · Scott-King's Modern Europe: More than the syntax of the title links this long short story to "Charles Ryder's Schooldays." Both were written in the late 40s. In both, a character mockingly alludes to Hugh Latimer's famous last words, and the narrator refers to Daumier's lawyers.
Scott-King's Modern Europe is a short, perhaps over-short novella by Evelyn Waugh. Written in 1946, it visits a fictitious part of Europe largely unknown to its determinedly English protagonist. In 1946 Scott-King had been classical master at Grantchester for twenty-five years, we are told in the tale's first sentence.
