by Evelyn Waugh · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141184029
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«Scoop» is Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Scoop is an exuberant comedy by Evelyn Waugh about the Fleet Street press and its frantic hunt for news. Lord Copper, the magnate who owns The Daily Beast, believes he has an infallible instinct for spotting reporters, but a mix-up leads him to send the shy columnist William Boot to cover a war in the African republic of Ishmaelia.
Scoop was originally published in 1938 and this edition belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
For readers of British satire and humor and for those who enjoy stories about the world of journalism.
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.
