- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Novelists, Fiction, Neurasthenia
Gilbert Pinfold, an English writer suffering from a surfeit of sleeping pills, recounts his hallucinatory experiences while embarked on a boat for Ceylon.
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Intimate, character-led, spare and contemplative.
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Horizon Publishers, etc., Back Bay Books, Books on Tape, Inc.
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- French, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780141885469
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“IT MAY HAPPEN in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.”
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