The Bachelors
The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery.'It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. The bachelors of the title - almost the only men we meet in the narrative - are the thirty-something male barristers, teachers, journalists and museum attendants of a small patch of West London. They lead inturned, doddery, superannuated lives, pottering between grocers, coffee-houses, bedsits and the houses of their mothers and aunts. But the co…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78211-756-8
- EAN: 9781782117568
- Produktnummer: 19233489
- Verlag: NYU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'591 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 42
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