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Sword of Honor
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By Evelyn Waugh
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Dec 11, 2012
- Page Count
- 800 pages
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780316216692
Price
$33.99Format
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- Trade Paperback $33.99
- Hardcover $55.00
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This narrative spanning the war, based in part on Evelyn Waugh’s own experiences as an army officer, is the author’s surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war overwhelming. Though often somber, Sword of Honor is also a brilliant comedy, peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh’s early satires. The deepest pleasures these novels afford come from observing a great satiric writer employ his gifts with extraordinary subtlety, delicacy, and human feeling, for purposes that are ultimately anything but satiric.
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"Sword of Honour was the climax of Waugh's career as a novelist . . . Here in his final work there run together the two styles, of mischief and gravity, that can be noted in his writing from the beginning . . . He may justifiably have thought of it as crowning his work."Frank Kermode
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"[Men at Arms is] a highly entertaining novel....Waugh's sharp wit and sure touch of satire are always at work."Edward Weeks, Atlantic Monthly
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"[Officers and Gentlemen is] deft and amusing, sober and appalling. And it offers, incidentally, one of the most graceful salutes of many seasons to the flexibility of the English language."New York Times
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"Sword of Honor now clearly emerges as Mr. Waugh's main achievement to date, and the one piece of English fiction about World War II which is certain to survive."Times Literary Supplement
