Scoop
How far will one man go for a scoop that he doesn’t know, or care, about?
William Boot is poor, but not unhappy. He is not burdened by the hustle and bustle of the big city and can fill his time in nature. He even writes a little about nature for a national newspaper. This is all well and good until he is mistaken for his cousin, a famous novelist, and shipped to a nation caught in a war to act as a foreign correspondent. If he can get out in one piece, much less get the scoop the paper wants, it will be a miracle.
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February 21, 2017EVELYN WAUGH was born in Hampstead in 1903. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he travelled extensively and published a number of travel books. In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards. He went on to write a number of other books, including Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Men at Arms (1952). Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Sword of Honour
Evelyn Waugh
Rossetti
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Sword of Honour Trilogy
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Put Out More Flags
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Scoop
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The Loved One
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
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Vile Bodies
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