by Evelyn Waugh · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140182538
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«When the Going Was Good» is Evelyn Waugh's collection of travel writing, published by Penguin Books in paperback (304 pages, in English).
In this volume, Evelyn Waugh gathered accounts of his travels between 1929 and 1935: a Mediterranean cruise, the train to Abyssinia for Haile Selassie's coronation, and stays in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya and the Congo. It also covers his time in Guyana and Brazil and his return to Addis Ababa to report on the war between Abyssinia and Italy.
The edition is part of the Penguin Modern Classics series; the work was originally published in 1946.
For readers interested in travel literature and interwar British narrative.
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.
