Scoop (Heritage of Literature S.)

by Evelyn Waugh

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"Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fictional African country of Ishmaelia to cover an expected revolution. Although he has no idea what he is doing and he can't understand the incomprehensible telegrams from his London editors, Boot eventually gets the big story."--Amazon.com.
  • ISBN10 1306762731
  • ISBN13 9781306762731
  • Publish Date 1 January 2012 (first published December 1964)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 19 May 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Little Brown and Company
  • Format eBook
  • Language English