In a novel by this author, the main character buys a bag of mineral specimens from a woman at the Pension Dressler who eventually leaves with her German husband in a collapsible canoe. He wrote about a man who plays the card game "animal snap" with his son, who is killed in a fox hunting accident at Hetton Abbey. A character created by this author eventually becomes a porter at a Tunisian monastery and has a (*) teddy bear named Aloysius. A novel
In a novel by this author, the main character buys a bag of mineral specimens from a woman at the Pension Dressler who eventually leaves with her German husband in a collapsible canoe. He wrote about a man who plays the card game "animal snap" with his son, who is killed in a fox hunting accident at Hetton Abbey. A character created by this author eventually becomes a porter at a Tunisian monastery and has a (*) teddy bear named Aloysius. A novel of his follows a man who writes the "Lush Places" column for The Daily Beast and is set in Ishmaelia. One of this author's protagonists visits the Amazonian Jungle, where he is forced to read Dickens novels to Mr. Todd. A novel by this author features the alcoholic Sebastian Flyte, who befriends the painter Charles Ryder. For 10 points, name this author of Scoop, Handful of Dust, and Brideshead Revisited.
In a novel by this author, the main character buys a bag of mineral specimens from a woman at the Pension Dressler who eventually leaves with her German husband in a collapsible canoe.
Evelyn Waugh [or Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh]