He wrote two works about Ethiopia: one criticizing Haile Selassie's modernization efforts, the other a satire of war reporting.
He wrote two works about Ethiopia: one criticizing Haile Selassie's modernization efforts, the other a satire of war reporting. In addition to Black Mischief,  he satirized life at Oxford though the character of Paul Pennyfeather who is sent down from fictional Scone college for his activities in the Bollinger Club in Decline and Fall.  He wrote a work about Tony Last becoming trapped in a jungle village and forced to read Charles Dickens aloud, and is best known for a work subtitled The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder,  about Ryder's encounters with the Flyte family at the title residence. For 10 points, name this 20th century British author of Scoop, A Handful of Dust  and Brideshead Revisited.
He wrote two works about Ethiopia: one criticizing Haile Selassie's modernization efforts, the other a satire of war reporting.
Evelyn Waugh