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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Audio Book
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
Reader: Michael Cochrane
In this collection of semi-autobiographical stories, an ageing writer takes a cruise to try to rebuild his shattered life – and slips into madness. A poignant and sad book which is also often darkly humorous and uplifting, this is aninsight into both the recesses of Waugh's own mind and his brilliant imagination. First published in 1937.
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Available Audio Book Editions:
| F4X753 |
UNABRIDGED |
Audio CDs ( 4 ) |
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Publish Date: 01/01/2010
ISBN: 9781934997536
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| FP7030 |
Unabridged |
Playaway (1) |
$59.99 |
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Synopsis:
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An autobiographical novel in which Gilbert Pinfold, a middle-aged English novelist, is on a long sea voyage home to England. A medication prescribed by his doctor causes an extended sequence of hallucinations, in which Pinfold hears voices describing him as a hypocrite and snob and plotting to do away with him. Unusually serious and stylistically straightforward for Waugh, "Gilbert Pinfold" was the only work in which the author alluded to his own struggle with addiction.
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Author Bio:
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Educated at Oxford, Waugh worked as a schoolteacher--a job he loathed--until his first novel, DECLINE AND FALL, was published in 1928. He served in the Royal Marines in World War II, stationed in Crete and Yugoslavia, the setting for his trilogy, "Sword of Honor". In 1930 he converted to Roman Catholicism; his "Catholic" novel, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, was published in 1945. In addition to novels, Waugh also wrote nonfiction, particularly on travel. He was married twice, and was a neglectful father to several children. He spent the end of his life in the village of Combe Florey, in Somerset and died, after going to Mass, on Easter Sunday, 1966. Waugh was an often irascible, curmudgeonly personality, but his brilliantly comic satirical fiction, dissecting the British upper classes, has been not only critically acclaimed but wildly popular; the dramatization of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by the BBC was watched fanatically by millions.
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