Put Out More Flags
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A sharp and wickedly comic novel set against the chaotic backdrop of Britain's early wartime months, Put Out More Flags chronicles the misadventures of Basil Seal, one of Evelyn Waugh's most delightfully roguish antiheroes. Basil, a charming and unscrupulous layabout, discovers an ingenious racket billeting a trio of monstrous evacuee children on unsuspecting country households — and extorting money from them to take the terrors away. Waugh skewers the absurdities of the British class system and wartime bureaucracy with razor-sharp wit and a satirical precision that made him one of the twentieth century's finest comic novelists. First published in 1942, the novel captures the strange, suspended mood of the phoney war period with a brilliance that continues to delight readers decades on.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Very good. Jacket: Very good, no tears, minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight and secure. No stickers or labels present.
A sharp and wickedly comic novel set against the chaotic backdrop of Britain's early wartime months, Put Out More Flags chronicles the misadventures of Basil Seal, one of Evelyn Waugh's most delightfully roguish antiheroes. Basil, a charming and unscrupulous layabout, discovers an ingenious racket billeting a trio of monstrous evacuee children on unsuspecting country households — and extorting money from them to take the terrors away. Waugh skewers the absurdities of the British class system and wartime bureaucracy with razor-sharp wit and a satirical precision that made him one of the twentieth century's finest comic novelists. First published in 1942, the novel captures the strange, suspended mood of the phoney war period with a brilliance that continues to delight readers decades on.
