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Black Mischief
Author | : Evelyn Waugh |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105044962384 |
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Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom. Profound hilarity ensues from the issuance of homemade currency, the staging of a "Birth Control Gala," the rightful ruler's demise at his own rather long and tiring coronation ceremonies, and a good deal more mischief.
No Great Mischief
Author | : Alistair MacLeod |
Publsiher | : Emblem Editions |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781551995472 |
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Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.
Black Mischief
Author | : Evelyn Waugh |
Publsiher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781400040773 |
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In four short key works, an African state goes into a political tailspin, journalism comes under scrutiny, the California mortuary business is shown in a comic light, and a man goes mad on board an ocean liner.
White Mischief
Author | : James Fox |
Publsiher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9781480489172 |
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The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial Kenya In 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of “Happy Valley” indulged in morphine, alcohol, and unrestricted sex, often with their friends’ spouses. But the party turned sinister in the early hours of a January morning for Josslyn Hay, Lord Erroll, who had been enjoying the favors of the beautiful young wife of a middle-aged neighbor. Hay was found dead, a bullet in his brain. The murder shocked the close-knit community of wealthy expatriates in Nairobi and shined a harsh light on their louche lifestyle. Three decades later, author James Fox researched the slaying of Lord Erroll, an unsolved crime still sheathed in a thick cloud of rumor and innuendo. What he discovered was both unsettling and luridly compelling. White Mischief is a spellbinding true-crime classic, a tale of privileged excess and the wages of sin, and an account of one writer’s determined effort to crack a cold and craven killing.
Black Mischief
Author | : Evelyn Waugh |
Publsiher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2017-01-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780735252943 |
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Bringing a war-torn country into the twentieth century can’t be that hard, right? Seth has an Oxford education, and has just successfully ended a Civil War in Azania. Azania, of course, is the country of which he is emperor. And what’s a newly secure emperor to do with his country? Why, modernize it of course. He recruits an English aristocrat and an Armenian entrepreneur to help, but he may have bitten off more than he can chew… Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
A Handful of Mischief
Author | : Donat Gallagher,Ann Slater,John Howard Wilson |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781611470482 |
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A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The essays cover a wide range of material, from Waugh's early novel Black Mischief (1932) to his last travel book, A Tourist in Africa (1960). In addition to essays on well-known novels such as Scoop (1938), Brideshead Revisited (1945), and Helena (1950), the collection includes papers on Waugh's library, his changing conception of Oxford, his writing about religious conversion, and his role in the British evacuation of Crete in 1941. The authors approach Waugh and his work in various ways, and innovative essays explore sovereignty, post-colonialism, and adaptation for radio. Contributors: Baron Alder, Peter G. Christensen, Robert Murray Davis, Marcel DeCoste, Patrick Denman Flanery, Donat Gallagher, Irina Kabanova, Dan S. Kostopulos, Lewis MacLeod, John W. Mahon, Richard W. Oram, Ann Pasternak Slater, John Howard Wilson.
When the Going Was Good
Author | : Evelyn Waugh |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780718197766 |
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Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in 1930; his travels in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya and the Congo, coping with unbearable heat and plagued by mosquitoes; a journey to Guyana and Brazil; and his return to Addis Ababa in 1935 to report on the war between Abyssinia and Italy. Waugh's adventures on his travels gave him the ideas for such classic novels as Scoop and Black Mischief.
Mischief
Author | : Charlotte Armstrong |
Publsiher | : Alien Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2023-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781667628233 |
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A couple leaves their child with a baby sitter and goes out for the evening. But who is this person that they have left to care for their child? This serialized version of the story, which appeared in Good Housekeeping in 1950, varies from the book version published in 1951.