Evelyn Waugh

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1945
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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The Sword of Honour Trilogy

Men at Arms (1979)
Officers and Gentlemen (Apr-1979)
Unconditional Surrender (Nov-2001)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Brideshead Revisited

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    Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns...

  • A Handful of Dust

    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 Wo...

  • Put Out More Flags

    Upper-class scoundrel Basil Seal, mad, bad, and dangerous to know, creates havoc wherever he goes, much to the despair of the three women in his life-his sister, his mother, and his mistress. When Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany, it seems...

  • Black Mischief

    "A hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England" (Time), Evelyn Waugh's third novel helped to establish his reputation as a mater satirist. "We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way." When Oxford-educa...

  • Decline and Fall

    Evelyn Waugh's "irresistible" first novel (New York Times) is a brilliant and hilarious satire of English school life in the 1920s. Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying fo...

  • The Loved One

    "A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide. Following the death of a friend, the poet...

  • Vile Bodies

    "A wickedly witty and iridescent novel" (Time) from one of England's greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s. In the years following the First World War a new generation e...

  • Men at Arms

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    The Sword of Honour Trilogy

    "An eminently readable comedy of modern war" (New York Times), Men at Arms is the first novel in Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy. Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. Hi...

  • End of the Battle

    Loosely based on Waugh's own war-time experiences, The End of the Battle is his last novel in the trilogy of World War II, written with the usual Waugh wit, grace, and polished humor, the story of British officer Guy Crouchback....



  • Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

    "The very model of the modern paranoid novel" (New York Times) and an ambitious work of semi-autobiographical fiction from one of England's greatest novelists. Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attem...

  • Officers and Gentlemen

    The Sword of Honour Trilogy

    The "wise, amusing, and beautifully written" (Commonweal) second installment in Evelyn Waugh's masterful trilogy of World War Two novels. Fueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes attached to a commando ...

  • Charles Ryder's School Days and Other Stories

  • Work Suspended and Other Stories

    These pieces show the range of Waugh's skills: Mr Loveday's Little Outing; Cruise; Period Piece; On Guard; An Englishman's Home; Excursion in Reality; Bella Fleace Gave a Party; Winner Takes All; Work Suspended; Scott-King's Modern Europe; Basil Seal...

  • Ninety-two Days

    'He wrote like an angel - a fallen angel...a marvelous prose stylist' - "Irish Times". 'Who in his sense will read, still less buy, a travel book of no scientific value about a place he has no intention of visiting?'. Waugh provides the answer to his...

  • Helena

    Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and "a superlatively well done book" (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor Constantine. Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man...

  • The Sword of Honour Trilogy

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    This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh’s career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an anci...

  • The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

    A "lavishly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) distillation of Waugh's genius--abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century's most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form.Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in...

  • The Complete Short Stories

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    Evelyn Waugh's short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century. We find in the...

  • Scoop

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a "thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny" satire of the journalism business (New York Times). Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, h...



  • Unconditional Surrender

    The Sword of Honour Trilogy

    By 1941, after serving in North Africa and Crete, Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, Crouch ...

  • Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

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    In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s birth, four of the master’s most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume.

    Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischiev...

  • When the Going Was Good

  • Sword of Honor

    This trilogy spanning World War II, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who...

  • Sword of Honour

  • Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Edmund Campion: Volume 17

    This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Evelyn Waugh has published 25 books.

Evelyn Waugh does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Edmund Campion: Volume 17, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, was published in January 1945.

Yes. Evelyn Waugh has 1 series.
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