Book description
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 Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to
cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. One
of Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly
irreverentsatire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news.
Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903 and was educated at Hertford College,
Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which
was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A
Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1945 he published Brideshead
Revisited and he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 for Men
at Arms. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.
