by Evelyn Waugh · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437626444
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Officers and Gentlemen is a novel by British author Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1955. The story follows Guy Crouchback, a middle-aged man who joins the British army at the start of World War II. Through his experiences in the army, the novel explores themes such as war, social class, religion, and the loss of innocence. The work is a scathing satire of British society and war, and is considered one of Waugh's best novels.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
