Scoop
A Classics, European Literature, Modern Classics book. The Pension Dressler stood in a side street and had, at first glance, the air rather of a...
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he feels...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 232 pages
- ISBN: 9780141184029 / 141184027
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It was a morning of ethereal splendorsuch a morning as Noah knew as he gazed from his pitchy bulwarks over limitless, sunlit waters while the dove circled and mounted and became lost in the shining heavens; such a morning as only the angels saw on the first day of that rash cosmic experiment that had resulted, at the moment, in landing Corker and Pigge here in the mud, stiff and unshaven and disconsolate. Evelyn Waugh, Scoop // We think it a very promising little war. A microcosm, as you might say, of world drama. Evelyn Waugh, Scoop // I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament. Evelyn Waugh, Scoop //
Journalists seem to love this guy. He's awfully snarky for a writer from the 1930s--but oh so good. A quick read, "Scoop" is about a man "named" John Boot gets accidentally sent to Ishmaila as a foreign correspondent. The fellow manages to report some news after blazing through his budget and falling in love with a married gold digger... This book made me laugh out loud, something that books rarely do. Then again, I don't read comical fiction. Still, I suspect that, were I to look into the genre, Waugh would stand out in the crowd.This is the third book that I've read from Waugh's work, and of the three it is the clear favorite. Along with his usual talent for razzing... In this diverting comedy of errors, Waugh satirizes African politics, British society, and world journalism. Retired country gentleman William Boot, through a series of misunderstandings, finds himself suddenly bound to Ishmaliea as a foreign correspondent, but he doesn't know quite how to invent the news. Somehow, he manages to bumble...
