Pritchett About the Author Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called one of the centurys great masters of English prose, wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Waugh has yet produced.- New Statesman & Nation Waugh treats society as a wonderland in which he plays the part of a rude, libellous, yet domestic Alice.- V.S. Waugh has written.- Saturday Review Absolutely delightful.- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Glacially sardonic.A masterpiece.- TIME The most mature and the best written novel that Mr. Review Quotes A brilliant satirical study of the eccentric between-wars society to which Waugh belonged.- LIFE A story both tragic and hilariously funny, that seems to move along without aid from its author.Unquestionably the best book Mr. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage irony, Evelyn Waugh indelibly captures the irresponsible mood of the crazy and sterile generation between the wars. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set.
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. Book Synopsis Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this absolutely delightful novel ( New York Times ) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I. In this companion to Not a Drop to Drink, Mindy McGinnis thrillingly combines the heart-swelling hope of a journey, the challenges of establishing your own place in the world, and the gripping physical danger of nature in a futuristic frontier.About the Book Originally published in 1934 1st Little, Brown and Co. Rumors of desalinization plants in California have lingered in Lynn's mind, and the prospect of a normal life for Lucy sets the two of them on an epic journey west to face new dangers: hunger, mountains, deserts, betrayal, and the perils of a world so vast that Lucy fears she could be lost forever, only to disappear in a handful of dust. When disease burns through their community, the once life-saving water of the pond might be the source of what's killing them now. Yet it seems Lucy's future is settled already-a house, a man, children, and a water source-and anything more than life by the pond is beyond reach. She has water and friends, laughter and the love of her adoptive mother, Lynn, who has made sure that Lucy's childhood was very different from her own. Lucy's life by the pond has always been full. The only thing bigger than the world is fear.
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