Scoop A Novel About Journalists - Penguin Classics

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Publisher's Synopsis

Evelyn Waugh's brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street, with an introduction by Alexander Waugh

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. But for, pale, ineffectual William Boot, editor of the Daily Beast's 'nature notes' column, being mistaken for a competent journalist may prove to be a fatal error...

'Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch'
Christopher Hitchens

Book information

ISBN: 9780141184029
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date:
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 823.912
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 222
Weight: 246g
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 14mm