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...Street, and rated her and the Cavendish itself as two of the three most rewarding landmarks in London (with the Tower, which has not taken many boarders since the 16 century). The mid-Mayfair hotel remained for decades one of the last places in all England where, as Evelyn Waugh wrote of it in Vile Bodies, "one can still draw up, cool and uncontaminated, great, healing draughts of Edwardian certainty...
...best, Author Jack is as droll as the early Evelyn Waugh he so obviously admires. The book has some fine set pieces of English comic writing: e.g., Bandy's defeat at the hands of an antique bathtub armed with such fixtures as "Douche, Spray, Wave, Plunge, Hot, Cold, Shower, Fountain, Plug, Waterfall and Sprinkler." But Author Jack does more than play it for laughs. Men die on barbed wire and a hand sticks out of the water in the bottom of a shell hole. ("It seemed to be waving at us cheerfully. Rollo shook hands with it.") This mingling...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. Part 3 of the author's Waugh-time satire, in which Guy Crouchback, having made himself ridiculous in the line of duty to God and country, is rewarded by the prospect of a long and happy life...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. Part three of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime, how an upper-class way of living and dying turned grey when the Russians became Britain's allies...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. Part 3 of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime, how an upper-class way of living and dying turned grey when the Russians became Britain's allies...