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title: "The Loved One"
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# The Loved One

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Review: The Ultimate Evelyn Waugh - I first encountered this excellent author decades ago when I read his first novella, Decline and Fall. What struck me then was not just his brilliance, wit and soaring writing skills, but his utter heartlessness towards his creations. No author I have encountered before or since does such utterly beastly things to his characters. In the Loved One, Waugh sends up multiple aspects of American mores and society in a style that somehow manages to be both outrageous and understated. At the same time, he recalls and seemingly repackages, without acknowledging it, the central character from Decline and Fall. In the earlier work, that character is Paul Pennyfeather, the more than callow public school teacher that acts as a tabula rasa for the indignities that life visits on those adrift on the seas of British education, pretension, and social prejudice. In The Loved One, it is as if Paul has been recreated, slightly older and only obliquely wiser, refitted with ultimate cynicism. The renewed character, I think, proves to be less successful in the final reel of the book (could he really be that cynical?), but otherwise it’s a grand, short romp with an author with some of the wittiest, grandest, most irreverent authorial skills of the twentieth century. A true delight.
Review: OK but pretty dated - Fairly boring but I did get an English degree for some reason.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #352,524 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #684 in Fiction Satire #2,290 in Classic Literature & Fiction #5,059 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (802) |
| Dimensions  | 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 031621647X |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0316216470 |
| Item Weight  | 5.6 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 176 pages |
| Publication date  | December 11, 2012 |
| Publisher  | Back Bay Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Ultimate Evelyn Waugh
*by A***E on July 1, 2020*

I first encountered this excellent author decades ago when I read his first novella, Decline and Fall. What struck me then was not just his brilliance, wit and soaring writing skills, but his utter heartlessness towards his creations. No author I have encountered before or since does such utterly beastly things to his characters. In the Loved One, Waugh sends up multiple aspects of American mores and society in a style that somehow manages to be both outrageous and understated. At the same time, he recalls and seemingly repackages, without acknowledging it, the central character from Decline and Fall. In the earlier work, that character is Paul Pennyfeather, the more than callow public school teacher that acts as a tabula rasa for the indignities that life visits on those adrift on the seas of British education, pretension, and social prejudice. In The Loved One, it is as if Paul has been recreated, slightly older and only obliquely wiser, refitted with ultimate cynicism. The renewed character, I think, proves to be less successful in the final reel of the book (could he really be that cynical?), but otherwise it’s a grand, short romp with an author with some of the wittiest, grandest, most irreverent authorial skills of the twentieth century. A true delight.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ OK but pretty dated
*by B***L on November 13, 2025*

Fairly boring but I did get an English degree for some reason.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Better than described.
*by J***N on January 28, 2026*

This was an excellent value and was protectively packaged.

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