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| Original Title: | The Sword of Honour Trilogy |
| ISBN: | 0679431365 (ISBN13: 9780679431367) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Sword of Honour #1-3 |
| Setting: | World War II (WW II) England,1940 Crete,1941(Greece) …more Yugoslavia,1945 …less |
Evelyn Waugh
Hardcover | Pages: 711 pages Rating: 4.25 | 1540 Users | 126 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Sword of Honour #1-3) |
| Author | : | Evelyn Waugh |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 711 pages |
| Published | : | May 10th 1994 by Everyman's Library (first published January 1st 1965) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. War. Literature. World War II |
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This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him. Yet, though often somber, the Sword of Honour trilogy is also a brilliant comedy, peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh's early satires. The deepest pleasures these novels afford come from observing a great satiric writer employ his gifts with extraordinary subtlety, delicacy, and human feeling, for purposes that are ultimately anything but satiric.Rating Out Of Books The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Sword of Honour #1-3)
Ratings: 4.25 From 1540 Users | 126 ReviewsCrit Out Of Books The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Sword of Honour #1-3)
There is something fundamentally wrong with these books (referred to here as SOH so I dont have to keep misspelling honour over and over), and I am not sure I can say exactly what that is, but I felt somewhat soiled after reading them. But this book (I will also refer to it in the singular, despite it being a trilogy, for simplicitys sake) is not early, funny Waugh, but deep, dark Catholic Waugh, so the laughs are gone now, replaced by a tedious and desperate kind of spirituality.The black heartI don't often laugh out loud when reading but Waugh's masterful wit and chummy irony got to me on more than one occasion. Characters like Apthorpe and Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook are what really set this novel apart in my mind. Wherever their names appear you know something is about to go down. Even though the novels are drenched in wit and irony, this is by no means a comedy but a rather complex drama set across a vast social, psychological, and spiritual tapestry. I didn't really know what to
This is the book -- the group of books -- where Waugh puts it all together. His young novels are nasty and laugh-out-loud funny. Brideshead is elegiac, beautiful and entirely unfunny. His books on Campion, Helena, and his travel writings are neither nasty, elegiac, nor funny, but show him a sensitive reporter of things seen and told. The Sword of Honour books balance the three Waughs together. He still has an eye for la merde, but a more human and forgiving eye than young Evelyn; he has a sense
War in literature may be glorious or terrible, and is often both. In Sword of Honour, it's neither. It is absurd, arbitrary, and very often, desperately tedious. Waugh mined his own wartime experiences for this trilogy of novels which he later edited into one 796-page epic, so the book has a certain amount of weight, both metaphorically and literally. It comes with his trademark cynicism, his acute sense of the ridiculous, but also with an authenticity born of experience. It's slightly uneven,
1. Men At Arms ~ 3*This first part of what was originally a trilogy was quite uneven for me. Guy Crouchback is a well-intentioned though ineffective man who, in his late 30s, joins the army to 'do his bit'. The opening section in training is the funniest with the farcical episode of Apthorpe and his 'thunder box' being especially hilarious. But there are long sections where Guy is shunted around aimlessly or himself goes off on a quest to locate the owner of a legacy for which he has taken
It's difficult not to get annoyed with a protagonist whose problems mostly stem from being a Catholic, and an aristocrat at that. Such problems seem self-inflicted, avoidable... but then I got to thinking that perhaps they aren't. How could the hero give up any of the beliefs that have been inculcated in him from birth, even if he wanted to (which he doesn't). So the Catholic misery is a fixture of the plot. As to the rest, the dialogue often reads like a sitcom, often farcical. There is a
i loved the scene with the moving thunderbox. probably the funniest thing i have ever read that i can remember right now :) got a little lost at the end of Men at Arms. fini!!
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