Evelyn Waugh Audio Books

Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet....

Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated work is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family....

Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars....

Irons, who starred in the landmark 1981 television adaptation of Waugh's novel, narrates this classic tale that chronicles Charles Ryder's friendship with Sebastian Flyte and his family in the 1920s.

Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftan who is suddenly betrothed to the warrior who becomes the Roman emperor Constantius....

A classic of our time, beautifully performed by Jeremy Irons and the basis of the award-winning television mini-series, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the Marckmain family.

In Scoop, surreptitiously dubbed a newspaper adventure, Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants....

Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys' private school in Wales....

Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom....

Evelyn Waugh was widely regarded as the most brilliant satirical novelist of his day. Drawing on previously unpublished BBC broadcasts, this CD presents Waugh in some of his most significant radio appearances.