The best-selling science fiction novel that will change how you think about AI. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. $15.00 + $3.45 shipping. Book Condition & Notes UK first edition. Professionally Packed. A more hard-eyed, trenchant satire, in more elegant, restrained prose, could not exist, Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2005. Scott-King's Modern Europe has none of the horrific undertones of most dystopian novels of the period, including the relatively lighthearted Bend Sinister. Scott-King's Modern Europe, by Evelyn Waugh (read 2 Jan 1952) This book made no impression on me and I made no note of my reaction to it. SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE - FIRST BRITISH EDITION BY EVELYN WAUGH. Details about Scott-King's Modern Europe - A Novel by Evelyn Waugh Scott-King's Modern Europe - A Novel by Evelyn Waugh Item Information. Scott-King's Modern Europe. 403. by Dr. Tod Worner. Early life. 1 Evelyn Waugh, Scott-King's Modern Europe (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949). A very good copy, with a little fading to the spine, in a very good dustwrapper with some foxing to the rear panel. Free shipping . Otherwise, the stories are mostly good but don't match the quality of Waugh's novels. 88 pp. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Scott-King’s Modern Europe is a short, perhaps over-short novella by Evelyn Waugh. WAUGH, Evelyn Chapman & Hall, 1947. Access: How to Borrow from Another Library. Condition: Very Good by Evelyn Waugh online at Alibris. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. $4.00 + $2.75 shipping . $4.14. Evelyn Waugh’s gently satirical "Scott-King’s Modern Europe" follows the declining career of a classics teacher at Granchester, a fictional English public school: "I think it would be very wicked indeed to do anything to fit a boy for the modern world"... (essay by Richard Gamble) Black and White US Outline Wall Map. The first American edition, by Little, Brown, appeared in 1949. SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE by Evelyn Waugh 1949 2nd Printing HBDJ. AbeBooks.com: SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE: Two copies, both first editions, both in original blue cloth with (supplied) pictorial dustwrappers. Unable to add item to List. Stalin & Co., 1st ed/1st printing, walter duranty, 1949, HCDJ. Evelyn Waugh – Scott-King’s Modern Europe – First UK Edition 1947. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Alternate History Science Fiction (Books). Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. So bear with me. KIRKUS REVIEW. Please try again. Dust jacket faded, creased and soiled with chips and tears. Growth : A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel. Interestingly, it came out at almost the same time as Vladimir Nabokov's somewhat similar Bend Sinister, which also features a naive academic dealing with a modern dictatorship. Cahpman & Hall; First Edition (January 1, 1947). Written in 1946, it visits a fictitious part of Europe largely unknown to its determinedly English protagonist. Item #4783 Price: $75.00 . Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Add to Cart Ask a Question. Yes, I know, "dystopian" is a stretch to describe Scott-King's Modern Europe, but I'm going with it in its broad sense of a book describing life under a fictional totalitarian regime. Blueprint Style World Europe-Centered Wall Map. $100.00 + $6.00 shipping . Something went wrong. Set shortly after the Second World War, the novel follows the story of Scott-King, a teacher of classical languages, as he travels through Europe. Select Your Cookie Preferences. Dustwrapper design and frontis by John Piper. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! On Not Being Fit for the Modern World. Written in 1946, it visits a fictitious part of Europe largely unknown to its determinedly English protagonist. November 10, 2020 . Helena by Evelyn Waugh. The Door to September: An Alternate Reality Novel: Survival in Prehistoric Wilderne... Silver Fox & The Western Hero: Warrior Reborn: A LitRPG/Wuxia Novel - Book 1, Land of the Free : A Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Novel (Mystical Slayers Book 1), The Origins of Constantine: An Intern Diaries Novella (The Intern Diaries), The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know. 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A more hard-eyed, trenchant satire, in more elegant, restrained prose, could not exist, Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2005. by Evelyn Waugh. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again. : and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk. Bibliographic Details; Main Author: Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. Buy Scott-King's modern Europe. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. From $59.00 - $199.00. Without weapons or even matches, survival seems unlikely. Both were written in the late 40s. Good / good. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Endpapers discolored. SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE. Scratch the World by Maps International Ltd. $28.49. Extremities rubbed. Yes, I know, "dystopian" is a stretch to describe Scott-King's Modern Europe, but I'm going with it in its broad sense of a book describing life under a fictional totalitarian regime. Scott-King’s Modern Europe By Evelyn Waugh Please try again. Interestingly, it came out at almost the same time as Vladimir Nabokov's somewhat similar Bend Sinister, which also features a naive academic dealing with a modern dictatorship. In fact, Neutralia is best seen as a European version of the slapstick African regimes portrayed in earlier Waugh works like Black Mischief and Scoop, up to and including the European naifs caught up dealing with the local disfunctionality. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Please try your request again later. Resources “Lost in Thought” and “The Dig”: Let the Cult of the Amateur Arise! To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Scott-King is a British professor of the Classics, who takes an opportunity to travel, all expenses paid, from his dreary, post-World-War-II, food-rationed land to sunny Neutralia (Spain, I believe, thinly disguised) for - lo and behold - a conference, sponsored by the government of Neutralia, on an immensely obscure bygone poet, a poet who simply happens to be Scott-King's academic specialty. Scott-King's Modern Europe: More than the syntax of the title links this long short story to "Charles Ryder's Schooldays." It Takes Me Back To When is a what-if story of the impact of foreknowledge on real historical events. First Edition, First Printing. A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced … Scott-King's Modern Europe. Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2013. Unable to add item to List. Scott - Kings Modern Europe. Format: Book: Language: English: Published: [London] : Chapman and Hall, 1947. Rides of a Lifetime Map Pack by Mad Maps. Please try your request again later. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece by Evelyn Waugh Paperback Bo. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Spine tanned, thus very good in good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper with internally taped edge tears. Please try again. Evelyn Waugh followed up his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited, with this short, rather whimsical piece published in 1947. They want to qualify their boys for jobs in the modern world. Scott-King's Modern Europe. The first, in blue biro, in a scrawling hand, "For Tony, the host of Bats with deep respect from Evelyn" with a half page caricature drawing by the author, of a … Best 5 International Locations To Review In Europe; Europe Historic Romance Novels On-line: How To Define Them Effortlessly; Will The Atlantic Instances Tackle The German Risk? Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2013. Please try again. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Shop now. An Antidote to Hostility: Bishop Barron on the Mind Pump Podcast Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Evelyn Waugh followed up his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited, with this short, rather whimsical piece published in 1947. Andrew Petiprin. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. There was a problem loading your book clubs. by WAUGH, Evelyn. Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (January 1, 1949). Slight lean to spine. Search for the book on E-ZBorrow. Gift label from the University of Nevada British and American Literature collection on front paste-down (now deaccessioned). Item #75227 Add to Cart Ask a Question. $24.99 + $3.45 shipping. Scott-King is an Englishman, a classics professor, and an old boy grandee of Granchester public school. Start reading the latest blockbuster by million-copy bestseller Matthew Mather today. Waugh, Evelyn. There was a problem loading your book clubs. It was first published in an abridged form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1947, and then by Chapman & Hall, also in 1947. London: Chapman & Hall. New York 1883 Historical Print Framed Wall Map (Black) $224.00. In "Scott-King's Modern Europe" by Evelyn Waugh, Scott-King refuses even to consider teaching anything but classics, even though that may mean he will be out of a job. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, minute chips at the folds. Evelyn Waugh – Scott-King’s Modern Europe – First UK Edition 1947 Evelyn Waugh – Scott-King’s Modern Europe – … The date is significant as it places Scott-King's Modern Europe among the dystopian novels published in the early Cold War years. 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