{"product_id":"evelyn-waughs-scoop-chapman-hall-1959","title":"Evelyn Waugh's Scoop - Chapman \u0026 Hall, 1959","description":"\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Scoop\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Evelyn Waugh\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Chapman \u0026amp; Hall\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 1959\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover in dust-jacket\u003cbr\u003eCondition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear, discoloured jacket, tanned pages.\u003c!-- split --\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eReader's note\u003c\/h2\u003eThis fantastic 1959 edition of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop deserves a place on your reading list! 'Mr Waugh writes: 'This light-hearted tale was the fruit of a time of general anxiety and distress but for its author, one of the peculiar personal happiness. Its earlier editions bore the subtitle: \"A novel about journalists\". This now seems superfluous. Foreign correspondents, at the time this story was written, enjoyed an unprecedented and undeserved fame. Other Minor themes, then topical, are out of date, in particular the 'ideological war' although some parallels to it might still be found in the Far East. At the time of writing public interest has just been diverted from Abyssinia to Spain...' Read more in this great book!","brand":"Country House Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56251881357691,"sku":"10835671","price":39.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2458\/8207\/files\/orig_511317_jpg.jpg?v=1778767616","url":"https:\/\/countryhouselibrary.co.uk\/products\/evelyn-waughs-scoop-chapman-hall-1959","provider":"Country House Library ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}