The Loved One

Author(s): Evelyn Waugh

Classics

The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.


Product Information

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was born in London and educated at Oxford. He quickly established a reputation with such social satirical novels as DECLINE AND FALL, VILE BODIES and SCOOP. Waugh became a Catholic in 1930, and his later books display a more serious attitude, as seen in the religious theme of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, a nostalgic evocation of student days at Oxford. His diaries were published in 1976, and his letters in 1980.

General Fields

  • : 9780141184241
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.101
  • : July 2000
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 7mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Evelyn Waugh
  • : Modern fiction; Classic fiction
  • : 128
  • : very good
  • : 823.912
  • : English
  • : 1
  • : Paperback