At one point in this novel, a couple assembles a boat in the middle of the Hotel Liberty. In another scene, the narrator describes the transformation of Jacksonburg to Marxville. Its final pages reveal the futures of such principal characters as the sometime friends Corker and Pigge, as well as the Madagascar bound Katchen. Additionally, the sycophantic Mr. Salter ends up happily editing Home Knitting. This prognostication occurs in the third section of the novel called The Banquet, which opens with the protagonist's triumphant return to England, only to have another character steal his glory and pitch an all-women expedition to the South Pol
At one point in this novel, a couple assembles a boat in the middle of the Hotel Liberty. In another scene, the narrator describes the transformation of Jacksonburg to Marxville. Its final pages reveal the futures of such principal characters as the sometime friends Corker and Pigge, as well as the Madagascar bound Katchen. Additionally, the sycophantic Mr. Salter ends up happily editing Home Knitting. This prognostication occurs in the third section of the novel called The Banquet, which opens with the protagonist's triumphant return to England, only to have another character steal his glory and pitch an all-women expedition to the South Pole. The novel opens with the section The Stitch Service, describing a case of mistaken identity as Lord Copper seeks out the author of the nature column, Lush Places, and sends him to cover a potential civil war in Ishmaelia.Depicting the intense competition between the Daily Brute and the Daily Beast, it was based on the author's own experience working for the Daily Mail and was written before its author's Brideshead Revisited. For 10 points, identify this 1937 work about William Boot navigating the British newspaper industry, by Evelyn Waugh.
At one point in this novel, a couple assembles a boat in the middle of the Hotel Liberty.
Scoop