by Evelyn Waugh · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140182484
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«Scoop» is Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (224 pages, in English).
William Boot, a country writer who writes about badgers, is mistakenly sent as a war correspondent to the fictional Ishmaelia. Amid misunderstandings, absurd telegrams and a revolt he does not understand, the story becomes a biting satire on the newspaper business of the British press in the 1930s.
The novel was originally published in 1938 and this Penguin Classics edition belongs to the Twentieth Century Classics collection.
It is suitable reading for those interested in British satire, twentieth-century classics and stories about 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.
